Whatever happened to the Curacao wildlife report?

[gustele]

Andreas, I have seen Snooks some years ago at the Car Pile (Dive Bus reef); I agree, they are quite rare. Yesterday my buddy and I found a large Moray Eel resting under the pier at Baya. The eel is at least 6 feet long; apparently I disturbed him because he started to look for shelter; seeing this large eel swimming was quite an impressive sight. Where he found it I have seen him several times before, so it is a regular guest. This was the first time that I saw him swimming free. YouTube - Large Green Moray Eel at Baya, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles

 

[AlanTheTrainer]

Alan, the 12th went by and nothing happened at sea. So far for predictions.
On land the carnival bursted out, so come on down here.

I'm coming...
I'll be on the Island by the end of the week and I just can't wait!
Diving With Andreas and his folks up and OEW
AND we are booked to do the Open Water Dolphin dive next week. It's just so hard to keep that as a secret from my wife.
Alan

 

[Curacao Sunshine]

Kukuisa and Andreas
I'll admit I'm not very good at fish ID, I had to look up the Snook but I've seen silvery fish with a black stripe. I can't remember the slope of the head. What fish might I have seen, maybe only a foot to a foot and a half long?

PS You're right John, I too missed this thread especially when there are photos attached.

 

[jd950]

I agree...we need photos.

 

[Kukuisa]

Conch snails are getting more and more extinct and only small ones can be still be found, so we were pleasantly surprised when we saw a very large one with a thick shell.

 

[Diver OnLu]

Driving from one dive site to the other today with our dive boat we saw a big Swordfish jumping out of the water several times out of Playa Forti in Westpoint - I had never seen anything like this before!!! Wish I had been in the water at that time

Andreas
..:: All West Apartments & Diving, Curacao ::..
..:: Ocean Encounters West Curacao ::..

 

[under water]

Saw a Flying Gurnard (Dactylopterus volitans) today in the shallow.
He was not flying, but searching for food in the sand by using the ventral fins.

(of course had no camera with me)

We saw this near the pier at Alice in Wonderland back in August.

At first we thought it was a flying gurnard, but were told that Curacao didn't have them and it must be a sea robin.