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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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Orange Blooming Barrel Cactus in Curacao
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Jun 30, 09     Comments Off
Orange Cactus

Orange Cactus

Good evening friends of the blog how is everyone tonight??  I told you all recently that our cactus here are really starting to change colors due to the lack of rain and as you can see I wasn’t kidding!  Have you ever seen an orange cactus before??  And it’s blooming, see the two tiny little pink flowers on top, cool huh?  All the barrel cactus here have these tiny little flowers and they only seem to bloom in the late afternoon and into the evening, may have to check if they are still open at night?  This was taken at Mangusa Point at Saint Joris, the wild sea’s of the North coast are straight ahead behind the cactus.  See the tallest mountain in the back ground with the flat top to the left of the photo?  Almost near the top is where I found that little kitten a few months back, how he got there we will never know but he sure has a great home now thanks to our dear friend Sorayda. 
 
I had another uneventful day mostly because of two little puppies that seem to need constant attention?  I took all the dogs for a walk this morning to the salt ponds trying my hardest to wear them out.  It didn’t work? 
 
I had a doctors appointment at 9:00.  This was my final check-up before meeting next week with my eye doctor/surgeon and hopefully very soon get this cataract taken care of, it’s driving me crazy!  I have a bunch of friends coming to visit in August, September and October so I need to be at my best and I may be going to the Dominican Republic this year with our best friend and mentor Tom but still haven’t found any reasonable flights from Curacao. 
 
One of my Geocaches got robbed again because who ever last found it didn’t put it back the way they found it.  I bought all new containers and log books for all my caches and will be checking on them all in the next few days, you can’t believe how many folks come here now to find them!  For more info on this check out www.geocaching.com my Geo name is Didy Man if your searching for mine here in Curacao.
 
See you tomorrow, Barry
30-06-2009



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