Not always the most popular of subjects on a dive, but I find some of the various worms that live in tubes and only extend their feeding tentacles or radioles to be somewhat beautiful and well worth snapping some photos – if you can do…
Category: Underwater
Ok – I did have another post scheduled for today, but it got bumped to tomorrow because this is just too cool to let sit. During tonight’s dive, as we were gearing up, some other divers came out of the water and reported that there…
A very colorful Lantern Bass (Serranus baldwini) that let me get rather close for a very nice headshot…
For two of the shark dives with Salty Divers, we used a wreck as a landing spot to be able to more safely observe the sharks. As we approached, I snapped this quick shot of two other divers and the wreck.
The Blue Heron Bridge is a great spot for finding juvenile fish…. here are a few… Possible a juvenile Barred Hamlet (Hypoplectrus puella) but it is hard to be certain as they apparently get their coloration as they grow, but this one is definitely starting…
As my days in Florida were dwindling down, I read that Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge was a good place to see Roseate Spoonbills (the large pink birds that kind of look like flamingos but have a spoon shaped bill). I got up well before…
Well… after being excited by having found that previous Sea Spider, and thinking it was just a lucky find, I managed to not only repeat the achievement, but to do so in rather dramatic fashion. I found two different species of sea spiders on the…
These little Tiger Gobies (Tigrigobius macrodon) are cool tiny fish, even if they are tough to photograph because of their somewhat transparent bodies and their tendency to be very skittish and dart away quickly.
Though now all of these show the namesake blue coloration in their gills, and none of them are giving the more impressive threat display that pikeblennies are somewhat famous for, these Bluethroat Pikeblennies (Chaenopsis ocellata) appeared at the Blue Heron Bridge one day and were…
Ok – technically this is not truly a nudibranch… but most people call all of these things nudis, so I’m being a bit flexible here. Anyway, I’ve recently been thinking about diving (pun intended) into my archives and sharing some photos that have not yet…
I only managed this one shot of this squid during a night dive. By the time I managed to get this shot I realized I was a bit too close and I wanted to slightly reposition my strobes… I looked down at my camera to…
Finally got around to putting together another two weeks of dive videos from the Blue Heron Bridge.
Geographic Seahare (Siphonota geographica) are related to nudibranchs, are generally a bit larger than most nudis, and they have not quite abandoned the shell of their snail ancestors but rather have kept it internally.
On my second to last dive at the Blue Heron Bridge during my stay in Florida I noticed a fish hovering near a large conch. As I slowly approached, I noticed that it had some very nice coloration and was something I had never seen…
Batfish (no, I don’t know why they’re called that) are another type of anglerfish similar to frogfish. They’re both benthic (bottom-dweller) fish that have adapted some of their fins to act more like feet and walk along the bottom, but where the frogfish uses its…
