Author, Ocean Activist, Nerd
I’m reviewing each night of Shark Week (now in it’s 29th year!). But not here!
Go to Nerdvana, Arizona’s Original Geek Blog, and catch my reviews!
Night 1: The Best of Times, the Blurst of Times
Night 3: A Tale of Two Shark Cities
Night 4: Sharks Bless Us, Every One!
Stay sharky, my friends.
I’m pretty sure every kid, when they first start paying attention to the world beyond the sandbox, gravitates to the Mysterious World – the world beyond the veil, populated by unicorns, sea monsters, Bigfoot, Atlantis, and fairies. My parents wouldn’t buy me the Time-Life “Mysteries of the Unknown” collection (currently selling for close to $400 on Amazon!) and I always felt like I missed out on my true calling, as a wild-eyed conspiracy theorist, because of it.
Continue reading “Florida Diaries, Day 2: WHERE MYSTERY ABOUNDS!!!”
This is an Indo-Pacific lionfish (from the genus Pterois) from one of my 2017 dives off of Fiji’s coral coast. Even though I don’t have a red filter on my GoPro and I’m using natural light at about 60 feet down, it’s I think the video conveys the beauty of the animal as it hovers in perfect balance, display its’ delicate fins in a threat display as I approach it.
If you’re not familiar with the lionfish, it’s a predatory reef fish and on those delicate fins are spines which can be used defensively to deliver a painful sting. As stated by divemaster Mike Ryan to Erin Spencer in National Geographic:
“It won’t kill you, but it’ll make you wish you were dead”.
Continue reading “Florida Diaries, Day 1: Die, Lionfish, Die!”