Best of Mike #263

I really like to scuba dive.... and, you would think that after 700+ dives I would be completely comfortable below the surface.

But that is not the case.

When you are born to breath air and walk on solid ground.... there is always going to be at least a little trepidation as you descend under the sea.

And, when the rocks have eyes.... it only adds to those feelings.

You can see in the top left corner of this pixture the bottom end of the mooring line. So this is right under the boat.... the very beginning of the dive.

You have floated calmly down from the surface to settle on the bottom. You look to the right, as you orient yourself.... and the rock beside you opens it's eyes.

Really its the Flowered Flounder on the top of the rock that opened it's eyes.... but believe me that's not what your brain tells you at the moment that it happens.

When a Flounder is born is has an eye on each side of it's brain.... just like most fish.

But because they hunt by lying camouflaged on the bottom.... it is much more convenient to have both of their eyes on the side that faces up.

So, over the course of the metamorphosis from larval to juvenile.... one eye migrates.

Which side the eye moves to....is dependent of what species type the Flounder is.