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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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Jun 18, 09     Comments Off
Staghorn Close-up

Staghorn Close-up

Good evening from puppyville!  I had a request a few weeks back for a close-up view of the endangered staghorn coral.  Look closely and you can see a Polyp (which is a live animal) sticking out of each little calcium carbonate cup.  These polyps feed on whatever passes by like tiny pieces of plankton, they don’t reach out and grab it, instead food sticks to the arms, kind of like a fly trap.  So cool huh??
 
Aimee and I took off on a fun adventure this morning to the ocean collecting driftwood and letting the dogs go wild!  It is so windy and so dry here right now, we really need rain!  I have noticed that all the barrel cactus have lost their beautiful red color and are now just a bland greenish-brown, the rainy season is definitely the time to photograph them.  We really didn’t do a whole lot today, I was going to go biking but the insane blowing wind quickly changed my mind!  We just got home from a walk at the salt pans where we saw all the flamingos right up close, it was beautiful!  After our hour walk we drove to Caracasbaai and looked for the mother and baby pups but never found them again, we feel really awful about losing them!
 
Not much else to report from banana-land all is well.  Hot Curacao regards, Barry
18-06-2009

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