Nov 11, 2024
Felt like drawing some coral
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Felt like drawing some coral
Conch!
Special thanks to Rainbow Reef Dive Center, who were incredible, and Rutgers Scuba for setting up the trip. If you’re ever in Key Largo, please check out Rainbow Reef; I cannot speak highly enough of them! http://www.rainbowreef.us/
hobbies: getting emotional while watching ocean documentaries
100 Days of Sea Creatures Day 74 - Yellow Finger Gorgonian (Diodogorgia nodulifera)
I could not stop myself from taking photo after photo of grunts on my first dive in the Florida Keys. I took so many that I ran out of batteries on the first dive!
Special thanks to Rainbow Reef Dive Center, who were incredible, and Rutgers Scuba for setting up the trip. If you’re ever in Key Largo, please check out Rainbow Reef; I cannot speak highly enough of them! http://www.rainbowreef.us/
“Octopus’s Garden”
White Bank-Dry Rock’s (Wheeler’s) Reef
Key Largo, Florida
“Can’t See the Forest for the ‘Trees’“
This group of photos requires a bit of set-up—thanks for your patience! It was a quiet day on the reef so I decided to focus on the Gorgonians (soft corals). Some view these soft corals as mere clutter on the reef but I find them beautiful and fascinating animals. Yes, they are animals not plants.
I spotted a wonderful stand of Porous Sea Rods (Pseudoplexaura porosa) near a very small, low-lying, solitary, coral head (Photograph #4 from the top). I swam down to get in position for a good angle and while hovering there I took my first photo. I was about to swim back to the surface when I spotted something in my peripheral vision floating extremely close to the side of my head. As I turned I could see it was a very curious Green Moray Eel (Gymnothorax funebris). I was very thankful that Green Morays are not aggressive creatures since I had trespassed so closely to its’ territory.
See if you can do a better job than me spotting the eel in photograph #4…it won’t be difficult!
Gorgonians by juliosanjuan5 - Check it out on 500px http://bit.ly/2PBiTIV