Here’s looking at you, fish…

Nonlandscape

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100 feet down…

Mesmerizing

…calm blue and fish for days.

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And still more fish…

A ribbon of them...

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So many fish…

...so little time

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Staring at each other with suspicion…

Who is watching who?

Lionfish in a current make a diver uneasy. Unlike most fish, they’re not skittish. That means it’s possible to drift ridiculously close to those poisonous spines.

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What’s the name of this fish again?

North Indian anemonefish

Also, I believe, properly known as a Clark’s Anemonefish. Like all species, identification is difficult because people everywhere call them by different common names.

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Old joke: How do lionfish mate?

Lionfish interrupted

Very carefully.

The logistics seem difficult with all those spines… but I might have disturbed a tender moment between two poisonous, beautiful fish.

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Pull up to Jackson’s bar

How many different species do you see?

A riot of life surrounding a barrel sponge

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Toxic beauty…

Lionfish

Lionfish at Minerva’s Ledge.

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What oceans look like when we don’t take all the fish…

Abundance for the time being...

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