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Avid outdoorsman and underwater photographer, Barry Brown has spent the last seven years documenting life above and below water in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. Focusing on the island's coral reefs, he has worked hand-in-hand with several businesses and environmental groups, including SECORE, a marine conservation organization based in the Netherlands. His image of a research submersible was recently featured on the cover of DIVER magazine.

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Dec 6, 09     Comments Off
Elliptical Star Coral

Elliptical Star Coral

Good evening, I haven’t sent any coral faces out for awhile mostly because I never find any and trust me when I tell you I am searching!!  yesterday I found this chunk of Elliptical Star Coral and it was completely covered in fun faces, in fact the more I looked the more I saw, and yes I have a wild imagination!.  I only had my macro lens so I could only shoot sections but will go back and take a larger photo as well so we can see just how many different fun and scary faces we can find. 
 
Today we woke to rain and it rained on and off most of the day.  The dogs and I took off this morning on a nice two hour hike on my biking trails and while out there I did some trail maintenance.  I always get a kick out of tourists finding their way to my trails and there I am either sweeping or raking and seeing that confused look on their face’s makes my whole morning!  They always ask “what are you doing” and I proceed to tell them the story of how the trail they are walking on was born, always makes for great conversation.  After those rains passed today it was hot!  By 9:00 all of us were panting hard and we more or less raced back to the car and zoomed home for some cool air-co!  Like I have said before if we are home morning or night the air has to be on, it’s that hot!  Crazy huh?  After cooling down and washing the dogs and eating breakfast I loaded the car and headed to the Sea Aquarium for a nice morning dive!  the ocean was for once calm and beautiful and the diving today was out of this world!  The second I went underwater you could see for what seemed liked miles, it had been so long since I have been diving in such clear water.  I took a 16mm wide-angle lens today and proceeded to find and shoot some really beautiful coral reef scenes, many of those from today will be headed your way soon!  After my long dive I went shopping and then got ready for a bike ride.  I did a one hour loop today on the trails at the salt flats, some of it was a bit muddy from the morning and afternoon rain but it sure was drying fast!  I’m finding I have lost my in shapeness already, my how fast we lose it if we don’t keep up on it!  The problem about living here is there is just to much to do and biking usually comes in last!
 
For those of you wanting to see a real live Lionfish in person stop over to the Curacao Sea Aquarium and check out aquarium number eight!  One of our divers found and caught one the other day at west point and brought it back for all to see, it’s really a thing of beauty!
 
Dinner is ready, have a wonderful evening and a great Monday!  Bye now, Barry
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