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Bonaire
11-18-06 Dawn Patrol
| We got up waaaayyyy to early this morning to get in the water before the sun came up, we wanted to experience the "shift change" on the reef as all the night critters bed down for the day and the day critters wake up. The Parrot fish are particularly interesting to watch wake up |
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| Dawn from below |
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Parrot fish starting their day |
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The wreck at Capt Don's |
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A big trumpet fish |
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A White Spotted File Fish in the process of shifting from the Orange phase to the White Spotted phase. |
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In the upper center is a parrot fish tucked in to his sleeping place. in the evening they cover them selves with a layer of mucus that protects and some how hides them from predators while the sleep in nooks and crannies at night. if they are disturbed and they loose their protective covering they cannot make another that night and must swim all night. |
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Morning rush hour on the reef |
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Dan tries out for the obstacle course team. |
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A Pair of Banded Butterfly fish |
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A Sergeant major that just pecked at Dan's mask tries my camera too |
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El Gato |
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No you can't come in El Gato |
