Bonaire 2025
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These four images show the transition from juvenile Spotfin Butterflyfish . . .
. . . to adult.
Juvenile Blue Tang
Slightly older juvenile Blue Tang
Juvenile Blackear Wrasse
Juvenile Spotted Drum
Juvenile Smooth Trunkfish
Juvenile Two-spot Damselfish
Tan Hamlet
Barred Hamlet
Butter Hamlet
Sculptured Slipper Lobster - a first for me - 8-10" end to end.
Red Reef Hermit Crab - about 1" across with its shell.
Redeye Sponge Crab - he was hanging upside down - 3-4" side to side.
Cryptic Teardrop Crab - about 1/2"
Wire Coral Shrimp - Cryptic Teardrop Crab - about 1/2" or less
Spotted Cleaner Shrimp on a Giant Anemone - 1/2" ish
The tiniest Neck Crab I have ever seen - less than 1"
The second tiniest Neck Crab I have ever seen - less than 1"
Red Cling Crab - also hanging upside down - 1 1/2" ish.
Graysby being cleaned by Pedersen Cleaner Shrimp
Sergeant Major guarding its eggs
Look closely at the eggs an you will see two eyes in each.
Green Turtle rubbing against a coral head to remove algae from its shell.
Peppermint Goby - 1" - often seen sitting on coral heads
Sailfin Blenny - slightly more than 1"
Spinyhead Blenny - 1" ish
Southern Smoothhead Glass Blenny - a little less than 1"
Ringed Blenny peaking out of a sponge- about 1"
Yellownose Govies - 1" ish - they also like to hang out atop coral
Rusty Goby - 1" ish - it took me 2 weeks to find one
Christmastree Worm - dime sized
Club-tipped Anemone - the size of a silver dollar - the first time I have seen one out in the open
Tobaccofish - 3-4"
Yellow Goatfish in nighttime sleeping colors - 5" ish
Spotted Trunkfish - 6-8"
Orangespotted Filefish - 6-8" - you can see the dust on its lips from eating coral
Yellowhead Jawfish dancing over its burrow - 3" ish
Porcupinefish - 10-12"
Sharpnose Puffer - a little over 2"
Juvenile Spotted Moray - the thickness of my pinky finger
Goldentail Moray - about 2" wide
Chain Moray - almost as thick as my wrist
Atlantic Gray Cowry - 1 1/4"
White-spot Latirus - a little less than 1"
Flamingo Tongue - tail at the bottom, eyes at the top - 3/4"
Atlantic Longarm Octopus - smaller than my fist
Spotted Eagle Ray - 3-4' across
School of Smallmouth Grunts - 5-6"
School of Glassy Sweepers - 4-5"
Fairy Basslet - one of the brightest colored fish we see - 2-3"
Queen Parrotfish - 10-12"
Closeup of a Queen Parrotfish showing her reef-crunching beak
Immature Schoolmaster Snapper - 10" ish
Flying Gurnard - while they can swim, they typically walk along the bottom on their modified pectoral fins - 10" or more
Peacock Flounder - 10" ish
Glasseye Snapper - 6-8"
Sand Diver - 10" or so
Sleeping Redtail Parrotfish - 10-12"
Black Margate - about 12"
Green Turtle - a small one - around 2'
Green Turtle swimming up to the surface to breathe.
Juvenile Crested Caracara
Bare-eyed Pigeon
Brown Pelican
Reddish Egret with breakfast
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican
American Flamingo
Mangrove Yellow Warbler
Brown-throated Parakeet
Carib Grackle
Bananquit
Lesser Yellowlegs
Royal Tern
Ruby-Topaz Hummingbird
