Best of Mike #87

So this is how it works when you are a fan of the little stuff, the "macro".

You're swimming along and maybe a riot of color catches your eye.

Then you notice perhaps the tiniest flash of movement, so you cruise in ever so slowly and gently.

And, there he is a Diamond Blenny.... hiding in plain sight.

They are a slender, bottom dwelling fish, usually only about 1.5 to 2.5 long.

Their markings are most often ringed with yellow and if look closely at the top of his dorsal fin, just behind his head and you will see the diamond shaped crown that gives him his name.