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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanAug 11, 09 Comments Off
 Elkhorn Coral Eggs Good evening friends, your not going to believe what I did today?? I slept!! I went to bed again after midnight again and was up at 5:30 driving Miss Emily to the beach for her turn watching the whale. Since I was up I took the dogs for a two hour hike to the salt flats and when I got home I went right back to bed! I was so tired! I slept till noon, ate lunch then went back to bed till 4:00!! Can you believe it, I slept most of the day away, I have never done that before!
I met the coral researchers again last night at 8:30 and at 9:00 we all jumped in the water and off we went. The night was pretty quiet not much spawning but I did get a few more shots of the guys setting up their collection nets gathering a few eggs that were releasing. This is a close-up of the Elkhorn coral polyps with eggs just moments before they were released. These eggs are so much smaller than the star coral eggs, with the naked eye it’s really hard to see them. This is what the researchers are looking for, patches of eggs like this then they carefully cover them with the nets and hopefully collect as many as possible.
Not much else for you this evening, this is Emily’s last night here, we are really going to miss her she has been such a great house guest! Aimee took Emily to a going away party tonight at Michelle’s house so I am sure I won’t see those ladies till late.
See you tomorrow, Barry
11-8-2009
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