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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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Mar 17, 10     Comments Off
Flying Dolphin

Flying Dolphin

Good evening friends, it was another hot and dry day here in Curacao.  For those of you having rain please feel free to send a little down here, in fact we can trade, you send us moisture and we can send you some warm sunshine! 
 
Today at work we saw the craziest thing and I didn’t have a good lens to capture it.  During a dolphin swim a big Blue Heron landed on our rocks and in seconds caught a giant yellow trumpetfish!!  The trumpetfish was so big like two feet in length that the heron could hardly hold onto it with his mouth and he struggled to hold it for the next few minutes.  The heron kind of just stood there thinking, ok, this is a big one, how do I eat it now??  Finally in one big swift movement he flipped the live flopping fish straight up in the air and down it went head first into the birds throat!!  At first the heron just stood there with it’s neck fully extended because the fish was so long.  Moments later you could see the fish still flopping around inside his neck and body, and then ever so slowly it went further down still moving in the belly, it was unreal!!  Unfortunately we have these really cheap Sigma lens hooked to our nice Nikon D-90′s, it’s like a bumper sticker on a Lamborghini! 
 
Here’s one of our beautiful dolphins flying high in the air during one of our daily Dolphin Academy dolphin shows.  I think this is Kayena for those of you out there who know all the dolphins by name.
 
I have a bunch to do tonight, more tomorrow, Barry

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