Palau March 2023

^^ This stunningly beautiful fish is a Mandarinfish (Synchiropus splendidus), about 1.5" long I recently spent some time in Palau, an archipelago of around 340 tiny islands, situated where the Pacific…

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Cozumel Feb 2023

^^ Caught this Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris) red-handed... er, red-tentacled The conch is to an octopus as the cookie jar is to a human. You reach in and rummage around and…

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