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Went way east this time, all the way over to American Shoal. This is the next lighthouse going east from Sand Key Light, with shallows all around and lots of nice healthy coral. Here’s a sampling of what the reef looks like in the general area of American Shoal.
Conch Shell
By kat | May 31, 2011
This Queen Conch was just existing peacefully in the turtle grass around Rock Key last November. I didn’t touch him, just took the picture and then surfaced. There are conch all over in the grass and crawling over the sand in the waters around Key West. I don’t have a book for identification of conch [...]
This is some beautiful pillar coral on the reef near Key West. That’s a parrot fish poking his head from behind one of the pillars. Parrot Fish are hard to capture on film, since for some reason they are spooky and skittish around me and my camera. That actually surprises me, since nobody I know [...]