Blogs from Riviera Beach, Florida, United States, North America - page 5

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

I was running late to dive with Linda and I got to Bhhb just when she was getting in the water. Quickly we planned the dive. I met her at the dip where she had found a Super mini Melo. I tried to take a photo but immediately it put its face inside a hole so cute. Like I wouldn’t see it if I didn’t see it’s face. Left it alone and we moved to the dwarf froggie area and searched with no luck. I spotted an orange skeleton shrimp and I decided to place my backdrop and shoot it. Hopefully one would come out sharp. Linda left me her flag and waved me bye. As soon as she left something jumped and hide behind the snoot’s bags that I was using to hold my back ... read more

The find of the day was a couple of mated froggies. Bill found the mated couple but then he disappeared them so no one else can photograph them! The froggies haven’t been seen since then. Hey Bill: What did you do with them??? Did you eat them? This is the first time I saw the male going underneath the female and starting pushing her but she wasn’t ready instead she was jawing for camera around but mine. Judy and Diane found another pair around the dworfy area….and that info started a week of intense search for them….... read more

Jim and Susan Mears, Linda, Judy, SK and I got together for Linda’s second retirement celebration with a picnic before the dive. We got to quickly catch up and talk about what everyone was after. I wanted to find that yellow tiny froggie I saw the day before to take a good shot. Instead Linda showed me a tiny gorgeous nudi that I call purplellina. Susan M showed me a seaurchin full of squat lobsters and a cute orange amphipod sitting on a seaurchin. A couple of days after Susan said that those squat lobsters were pregnant. I looked through my photos and if she didn’t tell me I would have never noticed. Look carefully one of them has a big belly and you can see the black eyes of the babies inside the egg. Judy ... read more

I dove Nudi world again looking F. Marcussorum. When I was heading that when 2 seahorses tied by the tales poped in front of me and ascended doing their beautiful mating dance. First time I see it. They mated facing each other and not in a heart shape. I wasn't ready and the strobes were off so I only have a "proof that I saw it" kind of shot. I spent the rest of the dive trying to get that dream portrait shot of the Marcussorum up on a string of hydroid. I only realized later that I had put the subsee that SK lent me backwards!!! lol... read more