Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Best of Mike #436


This a Roughhead Blenny. 

It's hard to describe just how wee they are.

One year we diving out of Buddy Dive on Bonaire. On the underwater swim that we made from the dock to the reef wall, there was a huge concrete block.... a cube maybe 10ft on each side.  It was one of the moorings for the resort's dive boats. 

We passed that block many times during our trip.... and each time I had an impression that there was something on the block that would duck out of sight each time we went by.

So, one day we stopped and just lay on the bottom to see if they would re-emerge once they felt safe again.

All across this cement block there were holes, like you see here, about 1/3 the diameter of a pencil eraser. And sure enough once we had laid there for a while these little faces began to re-emerge from those holes.

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