Today’s nudibranch is most likely either Plocamopherus lucayensis or Plocamopherus pilatectus… or possible some other Plocamopherus species that is not listed in my ID book. What is throwing me off is that Plocamopherus lucayensis is supposed to have white papillae (little bumps) with black rings…
Well, I have officially left Florida and I’m on my way to my next set of adventures, so what better way to commemorate my time with a week of nudibranch photos. This first one was found near the Jupiter Lighthouse (I’ll probably share photos of…
On a walk in Riverbend Park, north of West Palm Beach, I approached a small clearing at the edge of a creek thinking maybe I’d see some wading birds or some frogs or maybe even a small gator. As I stood there a minute, I…
This will be the first in a series I’ll come back to from time to time. Every once in a while I decide to try and get as close as possible to a fish and get a close-up of just a single eye – quite…
This is a mix of portraits of Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris) and Long-armed Octopus (Macrotritopus defilippi) – see if you can figure out which is which…
I only managed to get this one decent photo of this bird. I’ve seen a couple of them on occasion since, but they’ve all been too far away. It took me a while to figure out an ID, but I am pretty sure it is…
I don’t always take the time to photograph eels when I come across them. So some extent it might be because with the macro lens on the camera is it difficult to feel like I’m getting anything different than I’ve photographed before… but because other…
Apparently IDing pipefish is extremely difficult and my book basically says for a full positive ID it requires the specimen to be caught so fin rays and other anatomical features can be counted in detail. But it does list one category labeled as Diamond Pipefish,…
Usually if I want to take a photo of a small fish swimming up in the water column it is a challenge to get the right shot, but when I’m trying to take a photo of an octopus in its burrow and a little juvenile…
This bird is an Anhinga… which just so happens to be its common name, the name of the genus, and the name of the species (so it is Anhinga anhinga). I also just learned that Anhinga means “devil bird” or “snake bird” in the Brazilian…
I think these are two different species of nudibranchs. Both in the Placobranchidae family, I think the first is Elysia tuca and the second is Elysia subornata. Oddly enough, both of these show up right next to each other in my ID book, so it…
Bobbit Worms (Eunice spp.) are the things of nightmares. They are ambush predators that live in burrows in the sand and usually only have a large pair of pincers visible waiting to trap fish. They can grow up to 6 feet long! I have no…
A few weeks back I posted some photos of the adults… now to share some photos of an adult with a couple ducklings…
During one of the dives, I had a malfunction with my camera and my strobes stopped working, so rather than just give up, I resorted to trying to do some photography with just the focus lights. I only got a couple keepers, but I think…
Nearly every park and trail I’ve visited in Florida listed bobcats as one of the species you may see. Having never seen a bobcat in the wild before, I was skeptical at best. I figured there was no real chance of actually getting to see…
