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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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Yellow Tube Sponges at Mushroom Forest, Curacao
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Dec 27, 09     Comments Off
Yellow Tube Sponge

Yellow Tube Sponge

Good evening,  I am finally sitting down and relaxing after a very long day!!  I left the house at 7:00 on my bike and didn’t get back home till 9:00.  I started out on all the fun trails around here then headed to the salt ponds, next to Montana, then Saint Joris, Coral Tabak, Canoa, and back home on the ring, it was a long trip.  After I got home I quickly showered and ate breakfast then loaded the dogs and took them back to Saint Joris for a two hour hiking adventure.  It was a beautiful morning and I didn’t have my camera.  I did however find some great driftwood and my first ever hand carved ore, it’s really cool and looks very old.  The tide was pretty high this morning meaning I got very wet walking around the rocky shores and the dogs had to swim the whole way.  For us the easiest way to get to some of these remote driftwood areas is to just walk in the water around this very rocky shoreline otherwise you would have to risk walking at the top of a very slippery goat trail, I’ll take the water.  The rest of the day I went shopping, worked on my driftwood box and most importantly I went over to pick up my camera which arrived yesterday evening!!  Our friends Sara and Ann are here for only a week but brought us all kinds of goodies from the States, it was like a second Christmas!!  I am so happy to have this camera back and can hardly wait to start using it again, we have to make up for lost time!!
 
Your photo this evening is yet another from our scenic dive at the famous Mushroom Forest.  I think this is a cluster of Yellow Tube Sponges, if anyone thinks different please let me know!  I am quickly finding out just how hard it is to identify sponges, they come in so many colors and shapes!!  The little darker brown sponge bowl off to the left at the base is a little Touch-Me Not sponge. 
 
Hope you all are having a wonderful holiday season, our friends at home are under a ton of snow!!  Gotta go, peace out, Barry

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