Friday Photo ~ Damsels

[Dee]

We love to hate these little nippers! Thank God they aren't as big as they think they are....Please excuse the soft focusing!

And there are even freshwater Damsels....

 

[drbill]

here's a giant damsel in the waters off Isla Carmen in the Gulf of California.

I've always been fond of damsels, especially the two-legged variety.

Dr. Bill

 

[drbill]

this one a Limbaugh's damsel on the wreck of the Fang Ming off Isla Espiritu Santo in the Gulf of California (much as I loved Steinbeck and Ricketts' Sea of Cortez, the namesake was a murderer and the name is not favored in Mexico).

Dr. Bill

 

[drbill]

a nice school of blacksmith in Catalina's Dive Park. Imagine the fertilizer that gets added to the algae on inshore rocks when these babies shelter at night after feeding on plankton.

Dr. Bill

 

[Rooster]

How about a three spot?

 

[Rooster]

Here's a Sapphire Damsel