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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanOLDER POST:Goatfish, School of Goatfish, Yellow GoatfishNEWER POST:Frogfish, Swimming Frogfish, Longlure FrogfishAug 14, 10 Comments Off
Hi friends, check out this cool shot, talk about one in a million! Today at around noon I picked up my friend Stiyn and we drove to Vaersenbaai where we met two other friends, Rob and Ke-chi, both who work with me at the Sub- Station. Our main purpose for coming here was to find a new frogfish that another friend (who was here from Holland) just found and told me out. Most of the time when something new is found those that know these reefs can usually find the said item just from a brief description of the reef and the depth. Well the frogfish was really easy to find, it was exactly where I was told it would be. It stood out like a sore thumb with it’s glowing yellow body sitting high atop the reef motionless waiting to catch lunch! We stayed there for quite awhile, I ended up with some great photos and even got to see and photograph him or probably a her leaping from one coral head to another swimming in mid-water, it was so cool! The reef is starting to look a little better at Vaersenbaai. I found a cluster of Purple Stove Pipes that is amazing and will be going back next weekend with a model to shoot that. Well on the way back in just 15 feet of water there is a big rectangular chunk of rock just sitting all by itself surrounded by nothing but sand. Since I can remember this little micro-reef has been home to thousands of reef creatures like fish of every kind, shrimps, crabs, anemones, and corals of all kinds but mainly baby fish. In fact it’s a nursery of sorts. Well today while I was laying in the sand shooting a new shrimp that we don’t have photos of Rob signals me and points to a just born juvenile Smooth Trunkfish the size of pea! I couldn’t believe how small it was and how brave he was?? As we both watched this little trunkfish (who normally stay in one area) swam all over the side of this reef area, he was so brave. In fact at times he was moving around so much and so far from his original home that we both lost him but re-found him on and off. Well, while trying my best to keep a pea-sized creature in focus he suddenly left the confines of the rock reef and swam out towards me, maybe thinking I was another big chunk of rock with possible caves to hide in? On his way out to me, he was immediately met by a school of new-born French Grunts, they were only about 2-3 inches long but to him they were monsters! They immediately thought this was a floating piece of food and tried over and over to eat him or at least taste him which when the trunkfish baby felt this he went swimming full blast back to the safety of the reef! I only got one shot as it happened so fast, one of those, if you blink you would miss it kind of things, it was really cool to see! So again, you never know what your going to see on the reef, I will check on him again next weekend and let you know if he is still there.
That’s pretty much my day other than doing two hours of trail sweeping this morning with the dogs. I hope everyone is having a great weekend, see you tomorrow, Barry
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