Underwater Photo Location: Blue Heron Bridge, Lake Worth Lagoon, Riviera Beach, FL

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This is a world class muck dive! One of the closest points to the Gulfstream current, you just never know what you may find! We've documented 2 electrogenic fish, over 400 species of fish. Nudibranchs and it is a great place to study underwater photography. With a maximum depth of 23 feet, it is a 1 tank dive- but its a 2 hour dive! Your only restriction is the currents. Imperative to dive 1 hour before High tide on the outgoing tide. The area is equivalent to two American footbal fields. The currents can be ripping on either side ( the intra-coastal waterway and the channel to the inlet). And you must dive with a flag. So, you have to stay out of the channel. The little bridge has been under construction, and they made a mess of that. Under the big bridge is a wonderland of surprises to be found. The place is a nursery, and a migration place for mating couples underwater ( marine life... that is).
Facts about Blue Heron Bridge, Lake Worth Lagoon, Riviera Beach, FL

It is in United States
Blue Heron Bridge, Lake Worth Lagoon, Riviera Beach, FL is in the Atlantic (North American coastal).
The typical depth is 0-10 Metres 0-30 Feet.
The typical visibility is 3-10 Metres 10-30 Feet.

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by Suzan Meldonian
... you talkin' to me?

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My first attempt at snootery. I turned the strobes all the way out so that the edge of the beam would be the only lighting.

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Scrawled file fish flashing

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Leopard Sea Robin

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Little Seaweed Blenny

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Red Nudi, Plocampherus lucayensis..normal range Bahamas, unusual in Florida... but then this is the Blue Heron Bridge .. we get all sorts of cool and unusual.

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Oooh! pardon me!

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Bobbitt Worm- was out in the day time!

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A quiet moment

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Spotted Moray

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all a-glow

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Angel Fish ...D-lish!

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Bumblebee Shrimp in an Urchin

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Yellowheaded Jawfish

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Sailfin Blenny barking mad at my presence when he wanted to display. Wonder what he was saying:)

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I still can't believe its in focus!

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"The Teaser" female sailfin blenny that was teasing all the boy blennies. She had 5 suitors at 1 time and 1 seaweed blenny takin notes!

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Banded Jawfish with Eggs

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"can you see me now?" Seaweed Blenny hiding out in a Black Sponge

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Whip Eel, or locally known as the Jimmy Durante Eel (Bacycanichthys scutanicarus) rarely seen -a true sand dweller.

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Yellow Line Arrow Crab

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Scrawled Cowfish

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Da craw! Taken with 10x Subsee lens

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Hey ! I'm not gonna look at you.. ok - - an an then you won't see me . . . is she still there? I'm not gonna look.

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A path of fireworms lead us to this battle of survival, like a crowd drawn to a football game. Several Fireworms were attacking a live Octopus! In a heriffic display of bravery, weakened and stunned by neurotoxins, the Octopus never gave up.

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Honey- I'm watchin' the kids tonight! Taken with 105 mm + 10x diopter

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A Happy Dragonet !

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Mating Flounder releases eggs- 3 Seconds & poof- that's it folks! This encounter was over in a flash (mine:))!

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Male Lancer's Dragonet up front and personal!

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"Here's lookin' at you kid!" . . . or . . . a face only a mother could love?

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"Look into my eyes..."

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Fluffy.. a close up of a bearded fireworm. I am fairly certain they have 2 sets of eyes, and wear a rastaman hat.

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possibly Beroe's Comb Jelly

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.. but of course you may have a closer look...

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Spotted Moray- comin right atcha!

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Graysby

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Pretty in Pink?

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Did you know that Fan worms have eyestalks? If you sit absolutely still, the frilly part will twist and turn to watch things go by- they don't just open and unfold-wait long enough and the eye stalks appear!

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....Helloooooo... Here I am! Blue Throat Pike Blenny -really bellowing hard for a lady

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Spaceship landing - Aurelia aurita -Moon Jelly

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Hi there!

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Blenny playing peek-a boo in the fluff.

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Little Seaweed Blenny minding it's eggs in a cubby hole.

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...Or would you prefer this side hmmmm??? Scrawled filefish- Blue Heron

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... and then I want a big rock coral garden, 100 kids, and....and... Uh oh!

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"Searching for the ultimate partner" Sailfin Blenny whom has found the ultimate home, and not one possible mate in sight.

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ah, ha ha ha, I laugh in the face of your big black camera, ahahahaha!

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Dusky Jawfish was busy building his den when I happened along, and disrupted his work. He bellowed at me several times.

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The Cheerleader of BHB

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Striped Burrfish up front & personal!

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Waiting to Exhale

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"Ooooh!" Scrawled cowfish

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Hogfish chatter-talking!

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Cocoa Damselfish juvenile- Inhaling a little lunch.

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Field of Dreams...... Dondice Occidentalis

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. . . just Curious ! (seaweed blenny guarding it's eggs)

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Squid

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Flabellina aerobics demonstration

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...open up and say Aaaaaaaaaahhhhh! Juvenile Striated Frog Fish at Blue Heron Bridge

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Green Razorfish Turning

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Grandma's Bonnet

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I have eyes for you!

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Planehead Filefish juvenile, taken with 60mm and 10x Subsee

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Golden Coral Shrimp... just hangin around.

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This is the smallest juvenile trunkfish I've encountered so far. No bigger than aa the tip of your pinky finger, and they do not stop moving!

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Mr. Big & Beefy.... "I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll I'll..."

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Gray Angel juvenile

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Hermit Crab close up.

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Red Tipped Fireworm close up on face. .. notice, the mouth, is below and open. much farther away from where you think it might be. Apparently they just vacuum the the ground for dinner.

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Jawfish with eggs about to hatch

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Sailfin Blenny in full sail.

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Mystique.....

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Fish coming out

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...oooh! she's still there!

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An intimate moment with my friend.

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Prehistoric looking. Almost has a dolphin profile.

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Tiny Baby Seahorse in the weeds. Just like kids, they get all covered in whatever they've been playing in!

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Purple Anemone

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Dragonet close up

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Hybrid Angel fish, part Blue and part Queen. Although they are supposed to be sterile, I have seen groups of young ones.

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..is it safe to come out yet? Baby octopus coming out of mouth of a bottle

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Arrow crab studying his own reflection.

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Southern Stargazer. You can see the electrogenic "eyebrows".

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Mooon jelly

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Busted!

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Sailfin Blenny

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Red Tiger striped Hippocampus erectus

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Banded Coral Shrimp face

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. . . am I not the most handsome fish you have ever seen? I am looking good today. (Male Lancer's Dragonet)

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An artistic moon (jelly)

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Butter Hamlet

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On the worst vis day of the year, I decided to only photograph things of color and not let the dismal get to me. Amazing what you can find if you put your mind to it. Taken with the subsee.

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Afterburn A Hairy Blenny with a tell-tale sign of Fireworm bristles, mm yum. Some like it spicy!

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Crested Pipefish with a sea spider crawling on its face. Not particularly pretty- but a first at BHB, and the spider was extra bonus points. This little guy's head was size of my pinky nail. Taken with subsee.

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Cocoa Damsel

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Essence of Blenny ... 1 strobe turned out- my psuedo trial on non-snoot- snoot shoot.... say that 3x fast :)

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Essence of Blenny #2

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Black ear Wrasse

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Black Frogfish

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Colon Goby admiring his reflection.

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Muck Surfing

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Have a very Blenny Christmas & a Happy New Year

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juvenile Sea Robin

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Dondice Out of the Purple.

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Glassy shrimp about 3 cm. Taken with 105mm & 10x subsee

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Townsend Angel

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Juvenile Trunkfish

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My Ghost shrimp- masters of camouflage!

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Clear shrimp with eggs? or very full tummy :) hangin' on

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Mardi Gras !

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This was living on the side of a hermit crab

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Oooooh baby ooooh!

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You kids behave! Mother Skeleton shrimp minding the babies. I can't get over the humanistic qualities of stature & their close knit social order.

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Sailfin calling out

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The look of intelligence

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This past weekend, several of us monitored a pregnant seahorse. It began sporatic contractions- and if you look real close you can see one of the premies that popped out.

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..and wait for it.. here comes another contraction ! Seahorse giving birth

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Elvis no bigger than my thumb-taken with 10x subsee diopter

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The Horseman (seahorse)

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Warty Jellyfish- looks like the drawstring came loose

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Seaweed Blenny on peach colored sponge and yellow hydroid bulbs

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You must have eyes in back of your head! Bumble bee shrimp-

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Female Dragonet strutting her stuff.

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. . . That's "Mr. Bunny Ears" to you ! I think this may be a super juvenile elusive Blackfin Blenny fish..what do you think? Size approx 10mm

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Blue throat Pike Blenny

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ornate frilled seahorse

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Armored Sea Star, flexing.... prehistoric looking, and fascinating to observe. This sea star inflates and collapses its center lines as it moves forward. Strangest thing to see.

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Really tiny Goby juvenile, taken with 10x subsee.

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Flabellina Marcosum took four years to finally find this little guy.

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Male Sailfin Blenny in full display and fighting spirit. I watched this sailfin go from navy blue to light green to white as it went berzerk at its reflection in the lens, defending its territory.