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Caño Island and Coiba Island

The Eastern Pacific Ocean of Central America, teems with marine diversity. A live-aboard-yacht adventure to Caño Island (Costa Rica) and Coiba Island (Panama), offers a short but potent double dose of fun and incredible encounters with so many species.

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Red Thorny Sea Star, Echinaster echinophorus, Caribbean red sea star, echinoderm, Priest Bay, Chacachachare, Trinidad, Blue magazine, Solomon Baksh

Wishing on…a Red Thorny Sea STAR

The Red Thorny Sea Star (Echinaster echinophorus) is a cryptic echinoderm. It is usually found under rocks…

Green Finger Sponge with Golden Zoanthids, zoanthids living in association with green sponge, symbiosis in sponges and Cnidarians, Phylum Cnidaria, Parazoanthus swiftii, Iotrochota birotulata, rope sponge, Phylum Porifera

Symbiosis between two marine animals

by Sandra Baksh Sponges are the simplest of multicellular animals, with no true tissue layers or organs,…

Peacock Mantis in Anilao, Philippines, Odontodactylus scyllarus, Solomon Baksh, Blue magazine, Raptorial appendage, mantis shrimp,Stomatopoda, colorful antennal scales like peacock feathers, chitin fibers in striking club, powerful punch when hunting prey, mantis in Tropical Pacific

Meet the “shrimp” with a knock-out punch

by Solomon Baksh Mantis shrimps are not true shrimps, though they are both crustaceans. The difference is…

Photo Blog

Whiptail Blue Lizard, Blaublau, Blòblò, Lagadishi, Blausana, Kododo, Cnemidophorus ruthveni, lizard with turquoise/blue tail and blue spots, Mount Brandaris, Washington Slagbaai National Park,

A lizard by many other names…is still the Bonaire Whiptail

by Sandra Baksh With shimmering turquoise on its tail and feet, the Bonaire Whiptail is also called…

Keel-billed Toucan, Ramphastos sulfuratus, Sulfur-breasted toucan, toucan with rainbow-colored bill, bird of Belize, Blue magazine, Sandra Baksh, Solomon Baksh,

Terrific Toucans

by Sandra Baksh Toucans are among some of the most...
Bequia island, view of three bays in Bequia, St. Vincent and The Grenadines, SVG, Spring Bay, Industry Bay, Park Bay, Sal Bay, Brute Point, East Coast of Bequia, Blue magazine, Sandra Baksh

Bequia—three breathtaking bays

by Sandra Baksh Bequia is a tiny island, with a...
Galápagos Islands, Santa Fé land iguana, Conolophus pallidus, yellow iguana, Solomon Baksh, Blue magazine, Sandra Baksh

Galápagos Islands, Santa Fé land iguana

Of the three species of land iguana in the Galápagos...

Featured Videos

1:13 Shortnose batfish, walking appendages, Ogcocephalus nasutus, benthic fish, pectoral and ventral fins used as leg-like appendages, blue magazine
The freaky-looking Batfish
0:50 Christmas Tree worm, Spirobranchus giganteus, Blue magazine, Solomon Baksh, marine segmented worms, colorful whorls or feather-like structures underwater, radioles of serpulid worm
Christmas tree worms look festive, year round!
3:15 Cuba street dancers, giganteria dancers, Moko Jumbie, stilt walkers with colorful costumes, Havana, Solomon Baksh, Blue magazine
Giganteria (“Moko Jumbie”) dancers in Havana

Photo Gallery

Cuba (Zapata)
Coiba Island, Panama, Wayne B. Brown, Blue magazine,

Panama (Coiba Island)
Tube-tufted blenny, Solomon Baksh, Blue magazine, tuft of cirri on Blenny, Costa Rica pink blenny,

Costa Rica (Caño Island)
Blue-cheeked Butterflyfish, purple blotch on eye of butterflyfish, pair of yellow butterflyfish,Jordan diving, Red Sea diving, Wayne B. Brown, Blue magazine, Aggressor Fleet

The Red Sea
Cubera snappers spawning, Gladden Spit, Belize

Belize
Guanaja, Bay Islands, Honduras, diving Jado Trader wreck

Guanaja, Honduras
Hypselodoris kaname, dorid nudibranch, Anilao, Philippines

Philippines (nudibranchs)
Galápagos Islands, Santa Fé land iguana, Conolophus pallidus, yellow iguana, Solomon Baksh, Blue magazine, Sandra Baksh

Galápagos (Land)
Maldives diving, Golden Wall, anthias

Maldives
Ornate ghost pipefish, Solenostomus paradoxus,Raja Ampat, Indonesia, Wayne B. Brown, Raja Amapat Aggressor

Raja Ampat

Barbados
Chikuzen wreck, British Virgin Islands

British Virgin Islands
Diving Cuba, Jardines de la Reina, Cueva del Pulpo, Cayo Peidra Grande, sea fans, stoplight parrotfish, rope sponge, grunts, gorgonians, nurse sharks, shallow-water black coral, Solomon Baksh, Jardines Aggressor, Blue magazine,

Cuba (Jardines de la Reina)
Scalloped Hammerhead shark, Galápagos Islands, pelagic sharks, Wayne B. Brown, Blue magazine, Galápagos Aggressor yacht, Solomon Baksh

Galápagos (Underwater)

Bonaire