Added new pictures of Coney, different color phase
Added new pictures in my photography portfolio- City, sunsets and coasts.
12/30 Removed 1 lionfish from Hanson Bay
12/27 Removed 2 lionfish from Klein Bay
12/23 Removed 2 lionfish from Borck Creek and 2 from Little Lameshur Bay
12/22 Removed 4 Lionfish from Princess Bay today. Today was the first time I ever saw the orange colored Mangrove tunicate s at Princess Bay.
12/20/13 Added ICUN Information on the turtles page.
12/19/13 Added NEW page for Cyanobacteria and Marine Lichens
12/18/13 Added New Species Bigeye Scad
12/15/14 Added New Species - Flattened Helmet Comb Jelly
Added New Species - Winged Comb Jelly
Added New Species- Unknown Anemone
12/10/13 Added a new Photography Page - Out and about St. John -city, sunsets and shores
The seas have been quite choppy and the weather rainy. Although I've been out several times, the conditions have been horrible for picture taking.
I have instead been removing lionfish- three in Fish and one at Francis.
11/513 Added new picture of Spinyhead Blenny
Added additional unknown sponge
Added new picture of Haliclona (Reniera) manglaris (Creeping Sponge)
11/4/13 Added NEW SPECIES - Club Hydromedusa
10/21 Added NEW SPECIES Doughnut Sea Rod
10/8-20 Added new sponges.
Added New Species Green Sea Turtle
10/7/13 Added NEW SPECIES Niphates erecta Sponge #4 Other Sponges
Added NEW SPECIES Dysidea etheria Sponge #1 Other Sponges
Added several other unidentified sponges on the Other Sponges page
10/5/13 Added NEW SPECIES Caesar Grunt
Added new picture Beaugregory
Added new picture Dusky Damselfish
Added new picture Corky Sea Finger
Added new pictures Giant Brain Coral
Added new SPECIES page Octopus Sponge
9/30 Added new Species page for Christmas Tree Hydroid.
Added Spotted Scorpionfish to 'Things that Sting' page.
Added pictures of Baby Porcupinefish. Cute!
Added picture of NEW Species Black Grouper-Juvenile ("Dark Fish" page, bottom of page)
Added new picture - Queen Angelfish
Added new picture Elkhorn Coral
9/26 Added new photo to West Indian Starsnail
9/22/13 Added new photos of Barfin Blenny.
New! juvenile Coney pictures .
Added Lane Snapper, Spotted Goatfish and Sailor's Choice to the Silver fish page, now called Silver
or White fish.
9/19/13 Added a picture of a juvenile Yellowhead Wrasse
9/18/13 Continue working on scientific names additions. Added new pictures of True Tulip Snail.
9/17/13 Working on the addition of the scientific names to the species pages and all the pictures. I've also been working on editing new photos for art prints. Prints are on sale now at Best of Both Worlds art store and gallery in Mongoose Junction in Cruz Bay.
9/11/13 Added new pictures Seaweed Blenny, Spanish Hogfish.
9/8/13 The rainy weather has kept me out of the water and at the computer catching up on editing, classifying and posting. I'm about half caught up. I discovered that I had a couple sponges misidentified. Sponges can be difficult. Some of the sponges don't seem to have common names, so I give them one. If I find out differently, I'll make changes.
Added new pictures Spanish Grunt
Re-identified and added Giant Barrel Sponge page
Added new Picture Honeycomb Cowfish
Added new page Brain Sponge - similar to the Convoluted Barrel Sponge.
9/7/13 Added new page for Batwing Coral Crab
Added new photos for Flatface Swimming Crab
Added new SPECIES page - Yellow Pencil Coral
Added new Coney pictures
Added new page for Secretary Blenny
Added a couple nice male Rosy Blenny pictures
Added a couple Pink Vase Sponge pictures
Added new pictures for Pearl Blenny
Added new pictures for Orange Fire Worm
8/31/13 Retitled all fish species' page for better Google results
8/26/13 Spent the last 10 days finishing scientific names for most species. Also finished adding the common
names and scientific names to all the pictures (4,000 or so)
8/25/13 Added new pictures of Yellow Snapper, Schoolmaster, Sharpnose Pufferfish, Orange Icing Sponge
8/24/13 Snorkeled Trunk Bay. East side of Cay I found numerous large brain coral colonies being killed by the Black Band Disease. I keep seeing more and more of it.
8/19/13 Added new page and pictures for Venus Sea Fan
8/18/13 Added NEW SPECIES- Dead man's Fingers -Green Algae
8/17/13 Began adding ICNU information on threatened and endangered species.
8/15/13 Added Search this Site Tab
Added New Diseases Page
Added NEW SPECIES: Convoluted Barrel Sponge
8/13/13 Added NEW SPECIES: Wide Mesh Sea Fan
8/3/13 Continued adding scientific names and descriptions to species. Initial editing of 500 pictures.
7/29-8/2 continued adding scientific names and descriptions to species.
7/28/13 Added new photos of Harlequin Pipefish.
7/26/13 Added NEW SPECIES: Disk Corals
7/24/13 Checked hyperlinks and repaired unconnected ones.
Added new species Honeycomb Plate Coral (?)
7/23/13 Added New pictures Decorator Crab, Inshore Lizardfish
Added NEW SPECIES pages Elongated Sea Pearl and Sea Pearl
7/22/13 Added NEW SPECIES page. Mermaid's Fan
7/20/13 Added NEW SPECIES pages. Burgundy Crust Alga, Crustose Coralline Algae
7/19/13 Added NEW SPECIE page: Orange Veined Encrusting Sponge
Added more scientific names,
New photo for Yellow Fanworm.
Today at Princess Bay I noticed a great many new mangrove roots have taken hold and starting to grow along the east shore. I also noticed the bryozoans seem to be getting out of control. Mangrove roots are being taken over by massive amounts of bryozoans, overgrowing the sponges, tree oysters, tube worms, tunicate s and other organisms that make the mangrove roots a diversified community. They are also covering up many of the new mangrove roots and preventing their green shoots from emerging. While I noticed many stony corals continue to show edges dying off and coral mound shrinking, others seem to be doing well. Good News... no lionfish were spotted.
7/17/13
Some people love
the white sandy beaches.
The ones to
stroll along and leave your footprints
behind.
The ones that barely make the
sound of a whisper
As calm waves retreat
from shore.
White sandy beaches and
sandy sea floor
Where barely a blade of
seagrass grows.
Give me instead a rugged, rocky
shore,
Where colorful cobblestone and ancient
coral bits,
Make the wondrous sound of
clickity-clickity-clickity
As the waves
retreat from shore.
Where tide pools reveal underwater
mysteries,
And rocky crags provide
footholds for flora and fauna alike.
Let me climb the rocks and ledges, exploring
along the way,
Then listen to the surf, come crashing broken shores.
Barb Crites-
7/16/13 Added NEW SPECIES: Gaudy Clown Crab
7/13 and 7/14 snorkeled at Maho and at Frank
Bay. Classified and tagged about 400
pictures.
7/12/13 Added more scientific names. Updated
Pearl Blenny,
Padded
Clingfish,
Peacock
Flounder,
Palometa (also known as Great
Pompano).
Added pics for
Orange Cup
Coral and
Painted
tunicate
7/11/13 Added more scientific names.
Added
new pics for
Mustard
Hill Coral,
Night Sergeant,
Nimble
Spray Crab,
Orange Claw Hermit Crab.
7/10 New pics for
Mahogany
Snapper,
Boulder
Star Coral, added more scientific names.
7/9/13 Added scientific name to the
Magnificent Feather Duster Worm AND New
pictures.
7/8/13 Added NEW SPECIES
Overgrowing Mat tunicate
Added new
pics
Brittle Stars
7/6/13; Added NEW SPECIES -
Moon Jellyfish.
Added the species to the 'Things that Sting'
page.
Added: Pics to
Orangespotted Filefish,
Diseases (Black
Band),
tallied time in the water: 577.75
hours, Pictures taken 41,264 since 7/3/2010.
Added Scientific name to the
Purple Lobed Tube Sponge.
Reviewed
316 pics taken today.
7/5/13: Added NEW SPECIES-
Warty Seacat
New Pics-Pipefish,
Yellowtail Damselfish,
Inshore
Lizardfish
7/2/2013- Today I'm starting this web site
blog-log. This endeavor is so people who
want to catch up on what I've been adding to
the site can refer to this log. Today I
added another set of photos to document the
progress of a Fused Staghorn Coral colony's
regeneration
after being damaged by Hurricane Earl in
2010.
7/1/13 Split the page of small fish into 3
categories. Now
Blennies
and Gobies
have their own pages and the other species
remain on the
small fish
page.
Added: NEW SPECIES unknown
Sea
Cucumber page.
Added: new
pic
Coney .
Added: NEW SPECIES
unknown Brittle
Star.
Added: new pic
Coral
Encrusting Sponge.
Added: NEW
SPECIES-
Netted Flatworm
Updated web site
species photo count.
6/29/13 Worked on adding additional
scientific names to species.
6/29/13 Added a NEW SPECIES of Tube Blenny,
the
Spinyhead Blenny page
6/25/13 Added NEW SPECIES -
Basket Star.
6/11/13 Gave the
Reticulated Brittle Star and the
Banded Arm Brittle Star their own pages
5/12/2012 First sighting of
Black Band
Disease.
3/3/2012 First sighting of small
cluster of Tan Fan Bryozoans in Borek Creek,
by 6/8/13 they had spread to cover most
everything for about
100 feet of shoreline.
Website went online November 2011