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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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Aug 16, 10     Comments Off

Good evening friends, I am sitting here wondering just where did my weekend go??  It’s like “poof” and it’s gone!  I am not sure I told many of you but I have been teaching/training a young friend of mine in the fine art of mountain biking for the past few months.  His name is Stiyn and he is one of those kids who has a natural gift for biking, especially rough technical single-track.  Well today he had his first race and he WON!!  He rode like a champion and made us all proud, it was a great race!  I ended up riding my bike home from the race at around 10:45 and it was scorching HOT!!  I rode as fast as I could to get home but still ended up getting burned a bit, guess it was a bad day to wear a sleeveless jersey.  At 1:00 in the blazing heat I did something I rarely do, I loaded the dogs and drove top speed to the beach!  We have a beach called the Dog Beach over by Jan Thiel and that’s where we spent the afternoon!  When we got there I made a bee-line into the water and the dogs followed at top speed, we all had a wonderful time!  That’s pretty much my day, I made a fun dinner on the BBQ for Aimee and now everyone is relaxing.
 
Here’s another first for yours truly, this is a Longlure Frogfish swimming in mid water!  Yeah can you believe it?  Check out his Lure floating out in front of him.  I was photographing  this yellow beauty when all of a sudden without any warning he jumped off the coral head he was perched on and swam to another!  Those of us watching were screaming underwater, it was just so cool to watch!  As you can see Frogfish do not swim like a normal fish, he had to use his four flippers/legs to swim with and this took quite awhile for him to get to the other coral head. 
 
Thanks for all the compliments on yesterdays shot, that really is something you probably won’t see anywhere else!  Hope you had a great weekend, see you tomorrow, Barry
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