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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanMay 26, 09 Comments Off
 elkhorn-coral Good evening friends, how are my readers tonight?? I had another really busy day but that’s nothing new, there’s just always so much to do around here!! Well first of all I took the hound dogs on their normal two hour walk to the ocean. You would think we would get sick of doing the same thing all the time but it just never seems to get old and the dogs love the water.
At 11:00 I met our friend Dirk who is the man when it comes to knowing everything there is about the endangered Elkhorn and Staghorn corals. I took him on a tour of our reef to show him how the population is doing after Omar passed thru. Dirk who is based out of the Rotterdam Zoo in Holland is one of the World’s leading researchers on coral reproduction, check out his site, www.secore.org you can also see some of my donated coral spawning pictures there as well. He is planning on coming back in August to set up camp at the Sea Aquarium and watch these corals for any spawning, and yes I will be by his side as well to take pictures. Your photo this evening is a cluster of Elkhorn that survived Omar. We swam all over today looking at every piece we could find, many are broke but are re-growing and some just plain got beat to death, this is such a delicate coral and thanks to people like Dirk who are here to try and save what’s left and encourage new growth.
I also did a second dive today as well on our reef following a group of collage students that are here learning about the corals as well. My big plan was to try and photograph all these kids together but just didn’t work, there were just to many of them and turned out to be impossible to keep them together. I did however get them all together at the end of the dive near the big sea fan that I use so much and did get a fairly good group photo there.
When I got home I built a big driftwood bird feeder to use out in our yard and made it tall enough so the cats won’t disturb it as well. Aimee and I just got home from a party at the Sea Aquarium, it was a birthday party for Dolphin Academy’s seventh year of operation.
I’m out, Barry
05-26-2009
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