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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanOLDER POST:Male Hairy Blenny, Labrisomus NuchipinnisNEWER POST:Swimming Under an Underwater Arch at EastpointJul 9, 10 Comments Off
Hello everyone, thanks a zillion for all the Birthday wishes on Facebook and via e-mail it was really great! I came home today and had 126 messages on the computer, that’s a new record! Here in Curacao and in Holland if it’s your birthday you have to make or buy your own birthday cake and take it to your friends at work, it’s the total opposite in America where normally someone buys you a cake and surprises you with it. So thanks to my dear wife she made two big chocolate cakes and took them into work today and within minutes they were gone!
I have had many readers ask me what do sea turtles eat in the wild?? Well that’s a good question and really I have only observed turtles eating twice, once a juvenile Green Turtle eating sea grass and this small Hawksbill Turtle seen here digging in the coral rubble searching for tunicates or small mollusks. Hawksbill turtles feed primarily on sponges. They show a large level of feeding selectivity in the way that they only eat certain species of sponges, some of which are toxic to other animals. Jellyfish and other coelenterates are also common prey items. These turtles are omnivorous and also eat mollusks, fish, marine algae, crustaceans, and other sea plants and animals. A preferred feeding ground of the turtles is in shallow shoals abundant with brown algae. Their sharp, narrow beaks are used to feed on prey found in reef crevices. I watched for quite awhile as this guy dug in the dead coral, he would grab a piece of rock and pick it up with his beak and move it to the side and then go back to see what was underneath, he did this over and over and would occasionally find a small “something” to eat. After following him for an hour and seeing how much work he went thru to find food it just plain left me with a very depressed feeling, I just don’t know how they survive??
Our little male puppy is gone!! I am very sad this evening and am missing him very much even though he’s just next door at his new home! I pray he has a restful night and quickly adapts to his new home, he will be missed!
Thanks again for all the kind notes and cards it’s great to have friends. Goodnight, Barry
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