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Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary...Poor Man's Photos

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#1 ·
Forgive the poor quality of these photos. I was using a cheap disposable camera.






[ 07-21-2001: Message edited by: galleon ]
 
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#3 ·
Those pics give us a sense of what we are trying to do in our glass boxes doesn't it!!
Those are not bad galleon but I am sure by your standards they don't measure up!

I sure do thank you for sharing a world we as hobbyist find so beautiful and mysterious. Johnny
 
#4 ·
Hey Chris,
Not bad for one of those throwaway cameras. Beats my ancient Minolta underwater 110 with the scratched up lens!(I don't even bother to use it anymore)

BTW,
the last coral in first series and first one in the second series appear to be the same as scatteredf small colonies I saw last month in the sea grass off the beach at Fort Jefferson. Some type of Brain?
The colonies I saw were small, about the size of a grapefruit, and in water as shallow as 2'.
Dick


[ 07-21-2001: Message edited by: FishDaddy ]
 
#5 ·
Dick,
The last in the first series is Diploria strigosa (obviously a brain). The first in the second series is Dichocoenia stokesii (not a brain), both of which can be found off Fort Jefferson and Fort Taylor (Key West).

[ 07-22-2001: Message edited by: galleon ]
 
#11 ·
Horge, well, it is a heavily dived National Marine Sanctuary, so the animals aren;t as timid as you'd expect. Except, the fish I wanted photos of (snook, queen angel, midnight parrotfish, queen parrotfish, spotted eagle ray) wouldn't stay put. In fact, the fourth photo in the first set, you can see a female stoplight parrotfish that I chased around the east reef crest for 10 minutes, and still only got his rear half. Come on up and over someday Horge, I'm sure Jerel and I can hook you right up.
Chris
 
#13 ·
Hey Dick, it was all SCUBA. The reef goes from 5'-60'. We did most of our diving between 10'-40'.
 
#16 ·
I encourage everyone to come down and visit our reefs before they are all gone; right Jerel
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#17 ·
"visit our reefs before they are all gone"
A sad thought, but there's a lot going on down there.

I ran across "The Coral Disease Page" while looking up more info on Dichocoenia stokesii: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mccarty_and_peters/coraldis.htm
I'm sure Chris and Jerel are familiar with this work but it has a lot of good info and pictures for the rest of us about diseases of coral on the reefs. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mccarty_and_peters/coral/plague.htm
White plague on large starlet coral, Dichocoenia stokesii, Florida Keys.
Dick


[ 07-22-2001: Message edited by: FishDaddy ]
 
#21 ·
ROTFL!
We're also recruiting Diadema antillarum as storm troopers in the war against tourist divers.
 
#23 ·
That's nothing compared to what the fire coral volunteered to do...
yeesh...
 
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