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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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Tiny Curacao Burrowing Mud Crab
Crabs + Shrimp + Lobsters
May 20, 09     Comments Off
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Good evening one and all, welcome to another day in Curacao.  Tonight I have another different crab for you all, not sure of his name so I am just calling him a burrowing mud crab.  When the tide goes out around the bay in the area of the mangroves you will see thousands of tiny holes in the mud and each one of these holes contains one of these little crabs.  This little guy here was less than half an inch and very hard to get close to.  I just randomly picked a hole and set up the tripod and waited and it wasn’t long before out popped this tiny crab.  You can see he was not getting to far from his safe underwater mud cave, the slightest movement sent him flying back into his hole at top speed, I was shocked at how fast they can move?  Anyways just another cool crab from Curacao and found it interesting enough to photograph.
 
Not much else for you this evening, it was a day at work entertaining folks from the Adventure of the Sea’s cruise ship, everyone left with smiles on their faces!!
 
See you tomorrow, Barry
05-20-2009

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