We are in the thick of it with data collection right now, so I’m just going to dump some pictures without a lot of context.
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- Jaanchie’s! Local food, great atmosphere.
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- Tons of birds hang around Jaanchie’s because of the bowls of sugar they leave out.
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- It’s like Studio 54 for bananaquits.
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- The noble bananaquit surveys his domain.
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- Trupial, posing awkwardly.
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- Trupial.
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- Lizardfish, looking lizardy.
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- Reefballs at Portomari, concrete balls designed to seed reef development and to act as fish habitat.
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- Teensy baby butterfly fish.
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- Elkhorn coral, a rare sight these days.
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- Teresa explains our research to a group of locals and tourists who were wondering what we were up to.
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- Heading down for a dive. This is Alex and Teresa.
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- Alex Dornburg is only three feet tall. Here he is with an average sized Diodon for comparison.
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- Lionfish. Pretty, but jerks.
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- Sometimes when a lionfish feels that you should go away, he says “hey look at all these hypodermic needles full of venom that I’ve got here”.
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- The amount of color variation in trumpetfish is phenomenal, and they use it to “shadow” other fish – they try to hide their identity by staying close to another fish, and then pounce out at unsuspsecting prey items who think “oh hey, that’s just a parrotfish with a banana”.
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- Lionfish abound at Klein Knip. Unfortunately.
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- On the way out at Klein Knip, we saw an octopus hanging out in the shallows. He seemed to have a very weird pale membrane attached to him. Eventually we realized that he was eating a raw chicken drumstick.
