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Sea life Photos

Threadfin Butterfly
Thursday, December 12, 2019
Threadfin Butterfly

Beneth the beautiful blue waters of Sharks Cove on the North Shore of Oahu. This beauty is one of the many kinds of Butterfly fish that endlessly flutter around the rocks looking for snacks and the odd snorkeler to entertain. This guy was paricularly cooperative and curious and I very much enjoyed following him and sharing a few moments of his day.

Butterflyfish 1 | Chaetodon auriga 1 | Chaetodontidae 1 | fish 7 | Hawaii 4 | North Shore 1 | Oahu 4 | ocean 266 | Pacific Ocean 145 | Pupukea Beach Park 1 | sand 62 | sea creature 11 | sea life 2 | Shark's Cove 1 | snorkeling 1 | Threadfin Butterflyfish 1 | underwater 12 | water 278

Iridescent Jelly
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Iridescent Jelly

This amazing little creature is a Comb Jelly. The lights in rows on the side of his body are rows of tiny cilia (tiny movable hair like structures). But the light does not come from bioluminescence, the cilia are like tiny little prisms refracting the ambient light as the jelly waves the cilia to move through the water. The resulting wave of small rainbows is quite a show.

animal 25 | Aquarium 12 | Aquarium of the Pacific 2 | captivity 3 | cilia 1 | Comb Jelly 1 | iridescence 1 | jellyfish 5 | light 270 | Long Beach 1 | Mnemiopsis leidyi 2 | ocean 266 | prisim 1 | refraction 4 | sea life 2 | underwater 12 | unretouched 12

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