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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanDec 13, 09 Comments Off
 Spawning Hamlets Good evening readers, first I would like to say “Thanks” for all the great compliments on yesterdays photo, who would have ever thought the eye of a Stingray would be so popular?? Not me! Here’s a new Spawning Hamlet shot for you all, I took this a few nights ago on my long overdo “dusk dive”. I have spent so much time observing these hamlets over the years that I can almost predict where and when this mating ritual will take place now. It’s like everything, if you know what to look for it’s an easy thing to see but most divers are rarely in the water at this strange magical hour. These are Butter Hamlets and during the day they are solitary animals! When dusk comes around they will then leave the safety of their homes and travel great distances in search of a mate. After these two did their beautiful three second love dance I followed one of them for five minutes at top speed back to it’s home in the dark and it was a long ways from where they mated, I was really shocked!
Well it’s official, the Curacao rainy season has begun! We woke to rain again and it rained off and on all day. The strange thing is at 4:30 I took off on what I thought would be a muddy ride but it turned out to be fairly dry, the ground just soaks it up.
Because our car is broke down I had to walk the girls to the trailhead this morning from the house. Once we got there I started taking photos of some snails and wasn’t doing a good job of watching the dogs or should I say Indi, Inca is always near me. So I yelled, Indi!! She always comes when called but this time I saw her down the trail rubbing her face in the dirt, I thought she had found something dead? Turns out she had gotten badly stung by either a nest of ants of bees and her face looked like a balloon!!! She was a mess and in complete misery! I grabbed my cell phone and called Aimee who quickly borrowed a car and met me at the end of the trail and rushed her to the hospital where they gave her a steroid injection! By the time I got back home with Inca she was back with “balloon face” and her eyes were already looking better. I spent most of the day watching her at home and tonight she is 100% better but still swollen in the cheeks! Scary!
My buddy Mark from the “World Famous Dive Bus Hut” came and picked me and my gear up today for a dive on their reef at Pier Baai, is that service or what?? I did a long shallow dive and for the life of me couldn’t find anything to shoot today, I took ten shots of some pillar coral and that’s it! It’s rare when I do a dive and can’t find anything to shoot, weird huh??
Oh, I smell dinner, I gotta go. Rainy Regards, Barry
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