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Rainforest, mostly gone after Maria
Village of Soufriere by Scotts Head, wiped out by Maria
Scotts Head Point, above the water
Scotts Head Point, below. Wonderful sponge formations
Reef and sponges, Scotts Head Point
Reef and sponges, Scotts Head Point
Reef and sponges, Scotts Head Point
Reef and sponges, Scotts Head Point
Barrel Sponge with Brown Chromis fish
Barrel Sponge with Brown Chromis fish
Schooling Grunts (they can make a grunting sound).
"Champagne" dive site with bubbling volcanic vents.
Balloonfish. They inflate themselves if attacked.
Balloonfish, when they inflate the spines make them an unpalatable meal.
Lesser Electric Ray, can deliver a mild shock.
Shortnose Batfish. Certainly up there in natures oddities.
Arrow Blenny. They swim with the tail "cocked" so they can just straighten it out to escepe.
Spinyhead Blenny. Small, maybe an inch showing here.
Pike Blenny. Look closely, there are two of them
Pike Blennies, male in hole
Longsnout Seahorse. Swim but can use tail to attach themselves.
Longsnout Seahorse, colors vary
White Nose Pipefish. These swim on the bottom.
Pipehorse. A pipefish with seahorse type tail. This one is attached to a piece of brown seaweed.
Maybe three inches long.
Pipehorse. It's covered with algae and also taking on the color of the seaweed as camouflage.
Lettuce Seaslug. About 2 inches long.
Lettuce Seaslug. Many color variants.
Black Spotted Sea Goddess nudibranchs. Each is about 3/8 inch long.
Magnificent Feather Duster worm. These are the visible parts that comb the water for food. This
one is about two inches wide.
Magnificent Feather Duster worm, they create tubes to live in and retract into them for protection.
Social Feather Duster Worms. Each about 1/2 inch.
Social Feather Duster Worms, many color variants.
Christmas Tree Worms, these are the feeding parts. They will retract almost instantly into their
tube if disturbed.
Christmas Tree Worm "tube". Note the spike they create for their tube homes. Fish won't be
attacking after running into this.
Christmas Tree Worms. Many color variants, about the size of a thimble.
Christmas Tree Worms. Little female Red Banner Blenny lower left.
Christmas Tree Worms. Photobomb by Spinyhead Blenny lower left. The Blennies inhabit
defunct wormholes.
Muller's Sea Pansy, a kind of anemone, about two inches wide.
Giant Anemone. Note the tiny Squat Anemone Shrimp living with it.
Squat Anemone Shrimp--about 3/8th inch.
Whip Coral Shrimp, tiny, less then half inch
Bumble Bee Shrimp, tiny, matchead size
Bumble Bee Shrimp, on a sea cucumber
Spotted Cleaner Shrimp. 1 inch. Cleaner shrimp remove parasites from fish and other animals.
Sun Anemone Shrimp. 1 inch.
Banded Coral Shrimp. About 2 inches, found in tropical waters worldwide.
Pedersens Cleaning Shrimp. living in Corkscrew Anemone. 1 inch.
Pedersens Cleaning Shrimp, this one has eggs under the tail
Scarlet Striped Cleaner Shrimp.
Scarlet Striped Cleaner Shrimp, at work on a spotted Moray Eel.
Scarlet Striped Cleaner Shrimp.
Goldentail Moray with Pedersens Cleaning Shrimp
Spotted Snake Eel, lurking in sand
Sharptail Eel, three feet long.
Long Spined Sea Biscuit, a sea urchin that buries itself in sand.
Long Spined Sea Biscuit, burying itself.
Ocellated Box Crab, another sand dweller
Ocellated Box Crab, heading down into the sand
Mole Crab, a sand dweller. I had about one second to shoot this before it reburied itself.
Nimble Spray Crabs, hiding under Long Spined Sea Urchin.
Banded Clinging Crab, also lives under Giant Anemone. About 1 inch.
Banded Clinging Crab. Covered with algae as camouflage.
Yellowline Arrow Crab. About three inches wide.
Golden Crinoid. There's a little Arrow Crab underneath it.
Gaudy Clown Crab--tiny, 1/4 inch across.
Sponge Crab, they cut off and carry small pieces of sponge to camouflage themselves.
Channel Clinging Crab, big, at least two feet across the claws. Night dive.
Hairy Clinging Crab, in a sponge. Note the Yellowline Arrowcrab top right for size comparison.
Redhair Swimming Crab, about an inch, hiding in sponge.
Common Octopus, these inhabit reef crevices.
Atlantic Longarm Octopus, bury themselves in sand. This was a fantastic daytime find.
Atlantic Longarm Octopus, these are thought to mimic bony, unappetizing flatfish when they
scoot along the bottom.
Atlantic Longarm Octopus. Similar to the Pacific Mimic Octopus.
Atlantic Longarm Octopus, burying itself.
Atlantic Longarm Octopus, they can change color as well.
Sculptured Slipper Lobster, night dive.
Spotted Spiny Lobster, night dive.
Red Banded Lobster. A great find at 45 feet. Usually a deep reef creature at 150+
Red Banded Lobster. Dominica is the only island in the Caribbean where I have consistently
found these.
Red Banded Lobster. Normally a deep reef animal, look at the size of the eyes.
Dominica, before hurricane Maria. An
update.
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Great White Shark
St Vincent, 2009
Red Sea, Egypt 2009
Galapagos Underwater
Galapagos Land
Machias Seal Island, Maine. June 2010 and May 2019
St Kitts and Saba, August 2010
Philippines, Puerto Galera January 2011 Fish.
Philippines, Puerto Galera January 2011 Creatures
Fiji, May 2011. Beqa Reefs
Bali, Indonesia 2012. Fish.
Bali, Indonesia 2012. Behaviors and critters.
Bali, Indonesia 2012. Nudibranchs.
Blue Heron Bridge, Riviera Beach, Florida.
North Sulawesi 2013. Pipefish and Seahorses
North Sulawesi 2013. Fish
North Sulawesi 2013. Mostly Nudibranchs
North Sulawesi 2013. Crabs and Critters
North Sulawesi 2013. Cuttlefish and Octopus
Blue Heron Bridge, May 2013
Komodo, Indonesia. August 2014 and 2019 daytime
Komodo, Indonesia. August 2014, night dives
Philippines, Dumaguete 2015 Fish
Philippines Dumaguete 2015, Creatures and Critters
Dominica 2015 and 2017. Before Hurricane Maria
Raja Ampat, January 2016
Cayman Islands, October 2016
North Sulawesi 2017. Fish
North Sulawesi 2017, Creatures
Anilao, Philippines 2017. Fish
Anilao, Philippines 2017. Eels, Pipefish
Anilao, Philippines 2017. Crabs, shrimp, octopus.
Anilao, Philippines 2017. Nudibranchs.
Triton Bay, Indonesia. 2018
Villa Markisa, Tulamben. Bali, 2018. Fish and Creatures.
Villa Markisa, Tulamben. Bali, 2018. Nudibranchs.
Solomon Islands, April 2019
Siladen Resort. Siladen Island, Indonesia 2020
Coral Triangle. Things with stings.
Coral Triangle. Frogfish.
Coral Triangle. Crabs & Shrimp.
Coral Triangle. Cuttlefish, Octopi and Squid.
Coral Triangle Butterfly and Angelfish
Belize, October 2021.