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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanDec 3, 09 Comments Off
 Red Nerite Snails Good evening friends, as promised here is your new ”snail of the week photo”. These are called Red Virgin Nerite Snails and are my personal favorites! These Nerites can be found in great numbers on every rock along the oceans edge and as you can see have the most beautiful markings and colors! The number one colors seem to be these reddish hot pink ones (shone here) there’s also the black and white only, yellow and red, and my personal favorite which is a bit harder to find is purple and black. If you notice most of the shells have a green or yellow tinge to them, that’s algae from the water, if you were to clean them with a brush they would be spectacular!! These Nerits are most always found just inches from the waters edge. They seem to prefer an area or a rock that is constantly getting wet or covered by each wave but they don’t like to be underwater. To my surprise they move very fast and as you may have already guessed they can grip a rock like you can’t believe otherwise they would be knocked off with each wave. I still have many more species on the way to you so stay tuned next thursday for another, the search continues!
I just got home from a fast one hour bike ride. After work I rushed home and changed and took off, it now gets dark at about 6:20 so we don’t have much time in the evenings anymore. I tried to do a dive today but something constantly came up plus the ocean was angry again, it’s been rough seas for weeks now really glad none of my friends are here now diving.
That’s about it, hope all is well with all of you, talk to you again tomorrow, Barry
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