A “B”eautiful week!

Beach, Backyard, Black Water and Blue Heron Bridge. We started the week with a picnic dinner on the beach, Wednesday we were Black Water diving, then Friday we headed for an evening dive at Blue Heron Bridge. Sprinkle in our backyard visitors and all those Bs made for a bevy of photos.

My favorite photo this week was taken while black water diving. This is an Inshore Squid (Doryteuthis sp.) and it was really that color! He/she was about 1” long. For those who like the details, we drifted 4.7 miles in two hours over water depths from 716’ to 667’.

Following are a few more pictures from this week around the ‘hood.

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Brown Pelicans flying in formation, Jensen Beach FL

Grackle with his prize, Jensen Beach FL

Golden Silk Spider (Trichonephila clavipes), our backyard

Red-bellied Woodpecker, our backyard

Mottled Duck, Jessica Clinton Park, Port St. Lucie, FL

Larval Orange Filefish (Aluterus schoepfii), black water diving off Palm Beach FL

About 1” and as thin as linguini. Floating with Sargassum weed.

Sea Butterfly (Clio pyramidata), black water diving off Palm Beach FL

3/4” max

Caridean Planktonic Shrimp (Amphionides reynaudii), black water diving off Palm Beach FL

1 - 1 1/2” ish

Gray Angelfish (Pomacanthus arcuatus), Blue Heron Bridge, Riviera Beach FL

Approx. 2”

Long Claw Hermit (Pagurus longicarpus), Blue Heron Bridge

Sporting a wild headdress. The size of a dime.

Felimida Binza nudibranch, Blue Heron Bridge.

This is to show how small this guy is. The pointer is 1/8” (4 mm) wide. The etched line at right is the 1” mark.

Felimida binza closeup.

Gold-line Sea Goddess nudibranch (Felimare ruthae), Blue Heron Bridge

About the same size as the Binza.

Orange Cup Coral (Tubastraea coccinea), Blue Heron Bridge

Seaweed Blenny (Parablennius marmoreus), Blue Heron Bridge

Pinky fingertip sized.

Blue-eye Hermit (Paguristes sericeus), Blue Heron Bridge

Digging for dinner. Hermit body about 2”.