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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanJan 23, 12 Comments Off
Good morning friends, is it me or did that particular weekend go by way to fast?? I burned my Saturday up by working and diving at the Substation www.substation-curacao.com And while I am on that subject, for those of you asking, our underwater “live feed” is currently not working, it was in need of maintenance and is in the shop.
After work on Saturday I ran the dogs out to Saint Joris bay for a walk and swim. About half way thru the walk they both found an iguana sitting in a tree on a ten foot cliff. Well to make a long story short, the iguana jumped off the cliff into the ocean and Inca followed! I watched this from far away and just couldn’t believe that my eight year old pride and joy just jumped from that height, I was almost in shock! The iguana of course landed perfectly at the waters edge and took off swimming but when Inca landed she crashed and burned! I honesty thought one or two of her legs would be broken but after she got up and shock it off she was fine!?? I’m telling you she landed so hard and even though she was now walking I figured she will be limping bad tomorrow so I better get her home ASAP. To my complete surprise she is fine and never showed any signs of body damage even though her landing looked painful, so thank goodness for little miracles!
On Sunday, yesterday I drove the dogs out to the Jan Thiel area and we walked to my Calabash trail to check on a tree that has fallen over the trail and try to fix it. When I got there I found that it did not fall but a large trunk has now gotten lower because of it’s weight and is in fact so low that you can not ride under it anymore. I studied it for 15 minutes but there will be no way to fix it as the tree itself is know as “Ironwood” and can not be cut, it’s the hardest wood I have ever seen! I am thinking I will have to just build a new trail around it but will have to wait till the dry season, it’s a jungle out there!
After the walk I worked on a driftwood table that will be a gift for a friend and then took off on an hour mountain bike ride. It pretty much rained off and on all day so the trails were still fairly muddy and riding was a bid dangerous with the slick rocks. Because of the rain my morning ritual is now going outside before work each morning and picking up the land snails that are taking over our yard and driveway! If I don’t pick them up they get stepped on and to hear that sound under your shoes is not a pleasant feeling. In the process of picking them up this week I have found two new species of snails that I have never seen here in Curacao before. I have sent the photos to the “snail experts” at the World famous Smithsonian Institution in Washington and should have photos and a report for you sometime next month, I got some really cool shots of them.
Here is something else cool that again most divers will never stop to look at. This is a variety of Peach Encrusting sponge, Clathria, sp with beautiful little orange Golden Zoanthids, Parazoanthus swiftii attached to it. This species of sponge encrusts dead areas of reef and walls, especially under ledges, in recesses and other protected areas. And the Zoanthid colonies grow in meandering, band like rows. When the Zoanthid polyps are closed the colonies appear as golden patches. Large numbers of individuals colonize several species of sponges, including; Thin Rope Sponge, Rhaphidolphlus, Green Finger Sponge, Iotrochota birotulata, Brown Tube Sponge, Agelas conifera and of course Peach Encrusting Sponge as seen here.
Have a great Monday, I need to get this party started!! Do the best you can out there, Barry
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