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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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Apr 21, 10     Comments Off

Yellow Azure Vase Sponge

Good evening readers,  we are officially the owners of three new cute puppies!!  Aimee went this morning and easily found and picked up two of them and at the time could not find the third.  She immediately brought them home and gave them around five baths each removing ticks and fleas and cleaning a few small wounds.  At 2:00 she took them to the vet who then gave them some heartworm medication, and other stuff for their skin problems and the fleas and ticks, no parvo shots yet.  The vet said since they just were given all these other meds that they need to wait a week before receiving their first official shots.  The pups then slept very quietly all day in the puppy coral I built.  At 5:00 Aimee took off in search of the other and moments later returned with a smile on her face!  She then took off again with the new one to the vet and then once home gave that one five baths and now all three are busy chewing on rawhide sticks and seem very happy!  So far so good!  I will wait a few days for their skin to heal and then do a puppy photo shoot, I can hardly wait.  We are obviously counting on you guys out there to help us with homes.  Aimee will be more than happy to deliver one to the States in July if your interested so please think about it or ask around.
 
This is a yellow or cream Azure Vase Sponge.  Most of you have seen these in purple from me more than the yellow, this color is much harder to find.  Most of you already know that sponges are animals and come in many sizes, shapes and colors.  You know I was wondering how many divers out there ever take the time to swim over to a sponge like this and really check it out??  Many times if you swim over and look down inside the tubes you will see small fish or crabs that use these beautiful sponges as their homes.  Please for me the next time your out diving start paying closer attention to the sponges and tell me if you find one that really stands out, I would love to photograph it. 
 
That’s it for tonight, the puppies are now playing, I hear a little growling and little barks!  Bye, Barry
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