Good morning guys and gals, we are super busy here at Substation Curacao today and I just finished my first of two dives. On my way back I ran into our little 6-foot long green buddy (above) and it kind of caught me off guard! This giant lives here in our little lagoon but I rarely see him out swimming during the day like he was here, maybe he was coming back from a long night out on the reef, who knows!! I got off a few shots and then he took off down into the darkness of the reef. Moray eels are cosmopolitan eels of the family Muraenidae. The approximately 200 species in 15 genera are almost exclusively marine, but several species are regularly seen in brackish water, and a few, for example the freshwater moray (Gymnothorax polyuranodon), can sometimes be found in fresh water MORE… More:
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