Sorry for “disappearing” for over a week. I’ve been away on a scuba trip with my wife to the island of Bonaire. Doing 3-4 dives, lasting over an hour each, per day and processing photos when not eating or sleeping did not leave a lot of time for anything else. And a blog post didn’t make it anyway near the top of the list. (Just to put things into perspective I only checked email twice during the 10 days we were away, last Wednesday and last Saturday.)
Any way, we were away from a week ago last Friday until late last night. Here are a couple favorites from the trip. They both happen to be fish portraits. 
This one is a full frame (not cropped) close-up of a beautiful Queen angel fish.
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As you probably have guessed by the slow posting rate I’ve been busy. But thing are getting back to normal and I want to get back to regular posting. And what better way to do it that start showing some of the small creatures found on our trip to Sulawesi, Indonesia. Here is a little goby that lives in the coral.
What I find so unusual about this little guy is the location and shape of his mouth.
A couple of weeks ago I posted an image of a diver hovering over an anemone with anemone fish. This week I thought I would post a couple of close-ups of anemone fish. This the species made famous as Nemo in the movie Finding Nemo
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For this week’s post I would share a couple of images with cleaning behavior from Indonesia. The first is a pair of Sweet Lips where one of them is being cleaned by a wrasse. The second is of a Lizard Fish being cleaned.
The second is of a Lizard Fish being cleaned.
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I thought that for this week’s post I would use a couple of images with divers in them. This first one is John Koskulitz hovering over an anemone while observing the resident anemone fish.
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I’m sure some of you think I must have fallen off the end of the world. Well, truth be told, is only about half true. For the last two weeks I was only half way around the world, in Indonesia. In fact the last post on September 8th was posted from Indonesia. And I had planned to post more from there but my laptop decided to die. (This was a trip of attrition for myself and traveling companions. We had a lot of photo equipment problems–delicate electronics and salt water do not go well together.)
Being half way around the world, the time difference is exactly 12 hours. So I didn’t even bother to change my watch. I just needed to remember when it was 6AM there that it was 6PM, the previous night, back home.
They say getting there is half the fun. Do not believe them. Traveling, no matter what the mode, for 36 straight hours is not fun–it’s a form of torture. It’s taken 4-5 days for me to get “right” since getting home. And catching a head cold has not helped either. (Probably caught it on the way home during the 25 hours spent sitting in crowded airplanes.)
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Up next will be some smallish stuff from Grand Cayman. This Harlequin Bass is about 2 1/2 inches long.
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One last Turtle image from Grand Cayman.
We ran across this guy on an afternoon dive from the dock at Cobalt Coast.
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