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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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Sep 27, 09     Comments Off
Zoanthid

Zoanthid

Morning everyone, Aimee and I went to the Ribs Factory right after work with friends so not much time last night for blogging.  Not to much to tell you today, I spent yesterday at work again fighting off an in-coming sickness but I think I may have it beat.  I took Zicam that my mom sent, Echinacea tea and some cold and flu tablets all as a first line of defense and so far I haven’t got sick. 
 
Still having strange weather, it rained in the morning and was windy all day which caused very rough seas again. 
 
For all of you who have been asking, the whale is doing great!  He now follows the boat far out to sea and miles away each morning for his morning swim and then spends the rest of the day at Zanzibar Resort.  Once the sea calms down a bit I will go with them and try to get a photo of him following the boat and him jumping out of the water, George and all the helpers have done an amazing job!!
 
Your photo today is something new again.  These are called Zoanthids.  Usually when you see them during the day they look like white lumps but at night they open up exposing their beautiful polyps!  Look at the big white lump at the top of the photo, it’s closed so tightly you would never guess that’s going to open up into something so beautiful would you?  I find these in the shallow water around the Elkhorn corals, it’s just another cool animal that most likely gets unnoticed by most divers.
 
That’s about it, thanks for the votes, taking the dogs on their morning adventure now to Saint Joris, have a great Sunday!!  Barry
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