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Avid outdoorsman and underwater photographer, Barry Brown has spent the last four 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 7, 09     Comments Off
Spotted Cleaner Shrimp

Spotted Cleaner Shrimp

Hello all, just a quick note to say hi and that we made it thru our Monday fairly easy.  Aimee and I both worked today and it was fairly busy or maybe it just seemed busy because we were short staffed and I had to do more work than normal?  For the past three days now the ocean has been fairly calm and the diving is again back to being great.  This month is usually when we get a lot of rain but so far it has been small showers here and there, but I am sure those tropical downpours are looming on the horizon! 
 
Here’s a beautiful little Spotted Cleaner Shrimp hanging out on the end of an arm of a Giant Anemone.  You can pretty much bet that any anemone you find while diving will have at least one of these Spotted Cleaner Shrimps living inside, just stop and look closely.  They are kind of the care-takers of the anemone keeping it free of bacteria and sand and in return the anemone offers a great safe hiding place for the shrimp.  This colorful little shrimp was less than an inch in length and is constantly moving around making the task of getting his photo a bit difficult! 
 
We both just got home a little while ago, the first thing we do other than let the girls out is to make ourselves a cup of Highlander Groog and we usually take the time to just sit, relax and enjoy it before continuing with the nightly chores!  That’s about it, Barry
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