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Jun 9, 09 Comments Off
 endangered-staghorn-coral Hello, hi, howdy, yo what’s up, can you tell I’m running out of greetings!! It was another fast paced day in vacation-land for the dogs and I, poor Aimee had to work. I took the two luckiest dogs in Curacao to Saint Joris first thing for their normal two hour hike. A normal morning there consists of me either taking pictures or looking for driftwood and the dogs chasing anything that moves and eating anything that smells bad! We walked without seeing any of that smelly chicken that got dumped on the other side, so the right side of the bay seems to be clean and safe for the dogs. After getting back home and washing the dogs and eating breakfast I grabbed my dive gear and took off to the Sea Aquarium for a dive. Believe it or not the visibility wasn’t that great today although when you look at today’s photo you would never know that. We had pretty big waves again which in turn were really stirring things up. I know I have said this before but today I saw more fish on the reef than ever before! Look at the background of this photo it’s just a wall of fish! This is Staghorn Coral one of the most Endangered corals in the Caribbean and even the World. After Omar went thru last year it wiped out more than half the know population here in Curacao you now don’t see it anymore on many of the popular dive spots like at Directors Bay. On our reef we only have three or four patches of it and they are not very big. This coral is so delicate, any change in water temperature caused by global warming or whatever can greatly affect it and it will start to die immediately. These Staghorns here are actually coming back pretty strong right now, six months ago they looked really bad and I thought it was over for them. This coral is also home to countless fish and creatures, it’s a perfect hiding place from predators.
We again went to feed and water the puppies tonight. They are so cute and doing good but every time we get there they have no food or water so it looks like we are the only ones feeding them? Aimee is off tomorrow and will go and check on them more than once, please ask around and help us find homes, we will pitch in on the initial vet bill.
That’s about it guys, thanks for tuning in. Sunny regards, Barry
09-06-2009
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