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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanOLDER POST:Caribbean Reef Squid Beak, Radula, CephalopodsNEWER POST:Juvenile Queen Angelfish in CuracaoFeb 18, 10 Comments Off
 Sand Diver Hey, hey, hey it’s me again. Aimee and I both had the day off so I let her sleep in for the first time in 4 months and I took off with the dogs to continue my trail building at Saint Joris. I spent around an hour and a half on the trail and another hour walking the dogs along the water edge, fun was had by all. It’s now getting much hotter in Curacao and it’s so dry, we really need a big rain! By the time I got home Aimee was up so after a quick breakfast and washing the dogs we headed out to the airport to pick up and pay for my Bonaire ticket. I am now leaving on the evening of the 24th and returning the evening of the 2nd, it will be 6 days of non-stop diving excitement!! We have friends that will be flying in from Rapid City, South Dakota from the dive shop there and some other friends I have never met but talk to all the time on-line, so it should be a fantastic trip. Aimee and I put together a list of items today that I will try to find on this trip, including a white and a black frogfish!
After running all over town, driving to the airport and going grocery shopping we finally got back home around 12:30. I called Mark at the World Famous Dive Bus Hut and asked what were the diving conditions today, he said perfect! That’s all I needed to hear so off I went down for an afternoon dive at Pier Baai. Mark was right other than cold water right now the diving was great and calm. The first creature I came across was a juvenile Queen Angelfish and did manage to get a few nice shots but after that like magic she was gone, I couldn’t find her anywhere? My next subject was this big Sand Diver as you see here. This grumpy guy was sitting on the top of a big boulder in plain sight, normally they hide under the sand! Before I went in for the shot I let him get used to me in front of his face from a long ways off and then slowly and I mean slowly (it took 15 minutes) got close enough with the macro lens for the shot I needed. I was expecting him to take off at top speed after the flash fired but he never moved so I just kept shooting. These Sand Divers are really mean fish and eat their share of reef fish and talk about fast, I have seen one strike and eat an unsuspecting fish so fast it was over before I could react!! After playing with this guy I then moved on to an area with lots of little Secretary Blennies and spent the rest of the dive with them, they have the best facial expressions! By the time I got out I could hardly feel my fingers, our water is cold right now!
That’s basically what I did today, I am going to start packing my underwater equipment tonight so I have plenty of time to make sure I have everything! A big thanks to all of you for the compliments on the Caribbean Squid Beak from yesterday, I am shocked at how many of you liked that! Gotta go, Barry
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