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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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Sep 16, 09     Comments Off
Variegated Urchin

Variegated Urchin

Good evening friends, what’s happening??  I took the day off because my finger was pretty swollen still and Inca was acting strange??  I took her out to the trails so many times to try and get her to do her business but nothing each time and then she would look at me and slink back to the car acting like she had just been beat?  Finally at 5:30 tonight she finally decided she had to go and did go but is still acting weird, will be glad when Aimee gets here!!  So we didn’t do any kind of walk or hike today neither one of them seemed to excited about it.  I spent most of the getting ready for a helicopter photo shoot that we are going to do tomorrow at around 12:30.  Sport Diver magazine is doing an article on helicopter diving and needs a specific shot so tomorrow with the help of Mark again and one of his friends we are going to give it a try over by the Marriott. 
 
I was a good boy today and cleaned up the house before Aimee’s arrival!  Geez after sweeping the whole house it’s amazing how much hair Indi looses??  It looked like a baby kitten in the dust-pan today!  We are still expecting Aimee to arrive tomorrow night but I haven’t heard from her in the past 24 hours so not sure if there is a new plan or not?
 
Mark called me today and said on their night-dive last night around 7:00 they saw the brittle stars spawning!!  I can’t believe I missed that??  I have all my gear in the car now and am running down to Pier Baai to do a night dive to see if there is still spawning tonight, it’s worth a try hurt finger or not!
 
Your photo this evening is a close-up shot of our local Variegated Urchins that we have everywhere on the reef.  These are one of the few urchins that you can handle, you can carefully pick them up and they will crawl around on your hand, it feels really cool!
 
That’s it, glad everyone liked today’s photo so much love the compliments!  Bye now, Barry
16-9-2009
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