Thursday, May 7, 2020

Best of Mike #360

These two dudes are Garden Eels.

They are part of a whole crowd that live together in a colony spread out across the sandy bottom.

They extend only their heads and upper bodies from their burrow in the sand.

They are continuously moving in a graceful wave like motion to catch the plankton that is floating by in the water.

Kind of a cool sight, seeing the whole colony doing that dance. 

But they are tiny, so getting close is necessary for a good pixture and they are pretty shy, retreating into their burrows as divers approach.... so a pixture of a just a couple was the best I could do.

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