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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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Dec 15, 09     Comments Off
Purple Stove Pipe Sponges SQ Reef

Purple Stove Pipe Sponges SQ Reef

Good evening one and all, how are my faithful readers this evening??  Today was some kind of island holiday and just about everything was closed.  But the two places I needed to go the most were open, Building Depot and the grocery store!  I had to park so far away to get into Building Depot today, it was a giant one day sale on Christmas stuff so half the island was in there!  I asked three different locals in the store what they were celebrating today and none of them knew, one didn’t even know it was a holiday?? 
 
My day started with a three hour six mile hike with the dogs.  I carried my broom and did a whole lot of much needed trail maintenance the whole way, mostly sweeping up loose rocks and sharp thorns that are a bike tire’s worst enemy!!  It was a beautiful morning for a walk and ran into countless folks out either hiking or biking as everyone seemed to have the day off.
 
I put in a lot of time today at home hanging pictures for Aimee, putting up our Christmas stockings (and one for Emily of course), decorating our little artificial tree some more and wrapping a few gifts.  At 4:30 I took off like a man on a mission on a fast one hour bike ride.  You wouldn’t even know it rained yesterday, everything is dry again!  This is one of the cool things about our trails here, after a rain you can pretty much go riding because it’s little rocks and sand not a whole lot of mud. 
 
Just a fun photo from our House Reef, this is a nice little cluster of Purple Stove Pipe Sponges with a bunch of little Brown Chromis swimming around.
 
That’s about it, Aimee just made a great big salad with grilled chicken on top, it was great!!  See you, Barry
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