I had originally planned on stopping at the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge on my drive down. There is a wildlife drive there that I thought would be worth checking out, but apparently they are doing maintenance on most of the trails. I was able to…
Ok – this was supposed to be the post from the other day that got bumped in favor of the Striped Bumblebee Shrimp. This is another subject I found at Colleton State Park in South Carolina. I did not have any intention or anticipation of…
Well, I was going to post something else today, but last night was my first dive at the famous Blue Heron Bridge. Because of how things worked out, I ended up jumping right into a night dive, which is cool with me. The start of…
On my drive to Florida, I stopped at a random state park (Colleton State Park in South Carolina to be precise) to take break and stretch my legs. I didn’t explore too much, but I did walk down to a spot that overlooked the Edisto…
A video compilation of various insets and arachnids that I encountered while out hiking recently. I couldn’t decide on music for this video, and I was going to annotate it with some info about what is happening in the video, but I ended up not…
This little octopus was just peeking out of its burrow an made for a nice portrait…
A few shots from my visit to Paris…
On one of our last dives in Timor Leste, we went through an area where there were dozens of these tiny little anemones. I am not sure if they are just a very small species or if they were indeed babies/juveniles. I lean towards the…
Just a few landscape shots while I reminisce about traveling through Madagascar…
Alright! Two easily identified species here. A Flagtail Shrimp Goby (Amblyeleotris yanoi) and its roommate a Randall’s Snapping Shrimp (Alpheus randalli)… both of which are beautifully colored and make me wish I could be back in those warm waters off a beach in Bali… I…
It has been quite a while since I’ve shared a spider photo… Again, as with all of these jumping spiders I found in Bali, I have zero idea what it is actually called, but I like the face on this one.
I remember this dive very well… The visibility was absolutely horrible. There were five of us, and we lost each other multiple times (once requiring a trip to the surface to regroup)… and we circled over the same patch a couple times trying to orient…
I’m surprised I haven’t shared any photos of these lizards before. I am pretty sure they are Madagascar Three-Eyed Lizard (Chalarodon madagascariensis) and obviously get their name from that black spot on the back of their heads that look like a third eye. I remember…
If you remember way back when, I told a story about finding a frogfish on a dive, and I mentioned that just prior to spotting the frogfish, we were paying attention to a lionfish… that is that lionfish. It is a Gurnard Lionfish (Parapterois hetururus)…
