Best of Mike #27

This was the Bonaire trip that seemed to have an extra abundance of life on any and every dive.

We were there is September for this trip and I have often wondered if it was that particular time of the year that made life so plentiful.

We have been to Bonaire at a variety of different times of the year.... and it seems like there is always more going on in the late summer/early fall.

On this particular trip, it was the eels that seemed to be just about everywhere.

They were small but we regularly found them in settings just tailor made for good pixtures.

I believe this guy is a Goldentail Moray. I am saying that because his shape and the pattern of his markings are right for that species.

But I hesitate because his overall color is wrong. He should have a base color of brown but certainly has a green hue in this pixture.

Could be that we were seeing a rare individual of the species. But I notice in the data that my camera collects that the strobe did not fire.

Colors are definitely affected by the loss of light underwater. The strobes I use simulate sunlight and therefore make the colors right to our eye.

One of the first colors to be filtered out of the light spectrum, underwater, is red.

So, a more likely scenario is that something brown is appearing as green without the light from my strobes.

He is still kind of cute, even if he is the wrong color.