A peacock flounder in mid water. Normally they try to hide on the sandy bottom by
changing colours, but this one stayed the same colour for the 3 minuttes
I followed it.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, December 2006
The lettuce seaslug has a nice pattern. "It's a beauty!" (insert australian accent)
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, December 2006
The population of french angelfish is in good health around the island.
You see many juveniles and like this one adults.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, December 2006
The yellowtaled snapper taste good if you like fish.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, December 2006
One of Diana's turtles in Vaersenbaai.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, December 2006
I spent 75 minuttes with this turtle.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, December 2006
Close up of a pufferfish, why their eyes have that green colour, I don't know.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, December 2006
The squid communicate by changing colours.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, December 2006
Around 1 meter in length, the great barracuda can scare everyone
It is NOT dangerous, though.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, December 2006
This guy really wanna be a snake and many divers think it is but it's still
goldspotted moray eel.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, December 2006
I have never seen so many Chrismas Treeworms like around
Curacao. It's a worm sticking out the "chrismas tree" so
it can catch plankton.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, December 2006
The flamingo tongue is a snail with a hard shell and it eats fancorals.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, December 2006
The spotted trunkfish you don't see on every dive.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, December 2006
I was diving in one of 4 beaches in the San Juan area and found
this tiny baby hawksbill turtle.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, December 2006
You see moray eels on nearly every dive you make around the island.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, December 2006
The goldfaced toby is only around 3 cm long.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, December 2006
The lettuce seaslug is found on only certain divesites
around the island. It's same family as snails.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, December 2006
First time I ever seen a scorpionfish go for a snack.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, December 2006
The trunkfish was dancing around my camera doing 360 degrees turns.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, November 2006
The bow of the Superior Producer Wreck.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, November 2006
Pufferfish on nightdive. Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, November 2006
In the middle of this coral it's stomach is located. With it's arms in catches plankton
and puts the plankton in it open stomach.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, November 2006
Common encounter on nightdive, the Caribbean reef octopus.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, November 2006
I took around 30 shots of this guy, in only two photos it
had it's eyes open....
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, November 2006
I found 3 different ones on this nightdive.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, November 2006
This flying gurnard is not flying but walking on the bottom.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, November 2006
The very first frogfish I have ever seen.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, November 2006
It's mouth and eye is to the right. Tale and fin to the left.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, November 2006
Mister Barry Brown hovering above a fancoral.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, November 2006
Big fat green Moray Eel. Around the housereef of The Dive Bus I saw some up to 2 meters in length.
The Dive Bus housereef, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, 2006
The yellow stripes indicate that it can be dangerous to other fish but with its 5 cm in
length it can't really do any harm to anybody.
Juvenile french angelfish, The Dive Bus housereef, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, 2006
The Scorpion Fish is really easy to take photos of because it doesn't move much.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, 2006
The Tugboat is one of the only dropoff dives you can make here, the safety stop is made
around the wreck in 5 meters of water with lots of Soldier fish.
Tugboat, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, 2006
Golden spotted moray eel sticking its head out from a coral.
The Dive Bus housereef, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, 2006
Lizard fish sits very still an then strike quickly to their diner.
I was concentrating on my cameras settings so when it suddenly moved fast,
it scared the hell out of me. Porto Mari, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, 2006
A very common encounter around this island.
Spotted Moray Eel, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, 2006
I saw this one on the first dive. 100 dives later it was still that only time I saw it.
Pierbaai Reef, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, 2006
The carpile is a amazing divesite.... Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, 2006
I have never seen so many Chrismas Treeworms like this place, at the end of my stay
I stopped taking photos of them, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, 2006
This guy was sitting in the same spot for 2 weeks and then went
missing for a week and came back with a sun tan and
dutyfree goods....
Porto Mari, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, 2006
Common on night dives and very graceful.
Pierbaai reef, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, 2006
Found this in between rocks and corals, it was 12 cm long.
Halequin Pipefish, Pierbaai Reef, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, 2006
Graceful is the right word for these 4 cm fish. When they crow up they are not as pretty. It took
around 20 shots to get this one right because they move around in circles all the time....
Juvenile spotted drums, Curacao, Netherland Antilles 2006
Always swiming in front of the pier and around 1 meter long.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, 2006
Rich hermit crab in big house... Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, 2006
I was working at The Dive Bus as a scuba instructor so I got to dive
the carpile right in front of the diveshop everyday...
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, 2006
They look like lepards underwater, just another shape,
not as fast and way smaller.... not really lepard!
Flamingo Tongue, Pierbaai Reef, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, 2006
Very big but just hanging out.
Batwing Crab, Pierbaai Reef, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, 2006
