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Jawfish fanning eggs and pretty nudi
Published: December 4th 2012North America » United States » Florida » Riviera Beach
April 26th 2012
My Capt wants me back on the boat tomorrow so I decided to sneak in another dive good viz or not. The water looked clear at the beach but once I got in it was very particulate. Oh well I will practice navigation today. I went to see Sandra’s striated froggie in front of the playground. It wasn’t so pregnant and wasn’t doing anything interesting so I snapped a few shots but didn’t make any efforts to get a good one. I continued west looking for the Pink Horn seahorses but no sign of them. Viz was getting worse. I continued anyway. I swam on the surface to the mark and dropped on it and there it was: a little tiny dworfy, with orange hint on it. Adorably cute. I took a few shots but I ... read more
Just another dive at the bridge
Published: November 25th 2012North America » United States » Florida » Riviera Beach
Monday: 8 dworfy day!!!…squid collection
Published: May 21st 2012North America » United States » Florida » Riviera Beach
April 23rd 2012
I skipped the dive yesterday simply because I was a wuzz: I didn’t want to drive and I didn’t want the cold. Steve said to me: I bet You the Girlz are going to find 8 dworfs and you are going to miss it. And gave me the “Kovacs” look. I couldn’t wait till they get out of the water to find out what they saw: Almost exactly that: Not 8 but 6, plus 2 of my Nodosas between other interesting critters. Ah? Foggies? Yeah Froggies every where. Where? Every where!!!! Ahhrrr I couldn’t wait to go find them the next day. I made sure I got all the directions right. Got to the bridge way before time with all my equipment double checked and got in the water confident I was going to find them. ... read more
Thursday BHB Night Dive
Published: May 17th 2012North America » United States » Florida » Riviera Beach
April 19th 2012
Like always I was looking forward to my night dive. My plan was to investigate if my mini shrimp were visible at night. Obviously never saw one. As soon I got in the water I realized I had weight problems. I thought I was using the AL tank by mistake. At the end of the dive I finally put it together: I forgot my weight pockets. I didn’t want to bother getting out of the water to reweight myself and decided to continue the dive and do something different. Maybe shoot some fish. I saw a cute angel fish and fit it on my frame and shot it. When I zoomed in on it I saw a shrimp cleaning its gill. How fun is that? Cool. I got closer to take a better shot and I ... read more
Mimic Octo and dragonets -Tuesday
Published: May 16th 2012North America » United States » Florida » Riviera Beach
April 17th 2012
HT was at 6 pm I was going to have a late drive back home. I dove with Deb’s 100 cc that I like so much. I started the dive looking for the B. Nodosa and the black seahorse with pink horns. Viz was low and particulated. I found a couple of “Mena” shrimp with curly tale. One sand color and pics are a blotch and another dark color like the one I saw back in January. I needed the mindset for it so left it behind and I moved on. I found a very cooperative Bridge Mimic Octo with stripes on the legs. I had lots of fun with it for a while. Then I found an Orangina but I was having trouble focusing because of the surge. On my way out I saw a ... read more
April 16th 2012
We had lunch with the girlz and Bob. I think it was the day we celebrated Lindas last day at work and Lureen's promotion :) We enter the water 2 hrs before high tide. Our mission was to find the shrimp with curly tail: "My" shrimp. Woooo the current was still strong and 10 ft viz. So it is easy to imagine that I lost my buddy pretty soon after we got in the water. I searched for the nodosa for a while with no luck. Diane showed me a colorful fish that later got identified as a rare Red Goatfish and Deb found my black seahorse with pink horns but it didn’t have the porcelain crab on it. I moved on to the curly shrimp tail grass and immediately found one. I saw 4 more: ... read more
Moustache Jawfish Saturday
Published: May 13th 2012North America » United States » Florida » Riviera Beach
April 15th 2012
Steve and I did two dives today. The first dive we did 1 hr and 20 min. SK found a jaw fish he has never seen before and made me take an ID shot to show around. Now we think is a moustache Jawfish but not confirmed yet. Then I found a bunch of white skeleton shrimp very pregnant and tried to shoot some camouflaged shrimp but the photos are ugly. In the second dive I took Deb, Linda and Diane straight to the area where I saw the Nodosa two dives ago. I was lucky enough to find it. Maybe I just had fresh eyes. So cool. It has a lot of potential to use creative lighting with it. While Deb was shooting it I found more pregnant skeleton and the shrimp with curly tale. ... read more
April 13th 2012
I was late for the dive on Friday but I didn’t realize it until I got there. I didn’t feel like rushing. It was a bit windy and I was late already so had my time have my cappuccino and bagel with cream cheese and jelly. I headed to the log and south of it nothing there, I checked the edge with the channel and nothing so I photographed my orange skeleton that had given birth to its babies. I stopped by nudi world and found SK snooting one of the duskies with the younger eggs. I took him to the one with more developed eggs and hanging around I found 2 playful Sailfin blennies doing a full display of the fin and eating. One of the strobes wasn’t firing so my photos have an ugly ... read more
April 12th 2012
I dove with Linda and Anne. We were on the froggie mission and Anne was going on her third attempt to photograph the F. Marcussorum. On the way to Nudi world I saw a big banded Jaw fish with young eggs and a fish I have never seen before. Then Linda found a small dusky with pretty big eggs. In the meantime I saw 2 spiders that look like mating on of them was “Deb’s spider” with eggs. Then we wonder for ages looking for something different with no luck. Linda suggested to go under the bridge and I followed. We saw a flatworm I didn’t take pictures of, a few nudis and my final find: another dusky with pretty well developed eggs. Wow I don’t think I have seen eggs that big before. Then I ... read more
Marcussorum laying eggs. Wed
Published: April 26th 2012North America » United States » Florida » Riviera Beach
April 11th 2012
Dive with the mucksters. We found the marcussorum laying eggs. If you look closer you can see the eggs coming out of the body. The pregnant seahorse is getting bigger. Dedicated the dive to look for some secret subjects I didn’t find.... read more
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