I know we promised a trip report and we haven't forgotten it. I wanted to do some photos and just got my film scanner working under my new linux kernel. That is one excuse for the delay, the other is that I am having the usual post vacation disaster recovery week so far.(and it's only Tuesday)

Anyway, I started scanning some of the slides and will dribble some of them out over the next few days.

Jake, or anyone else for that matter, attached is a scan of the little yellow guy I showed you at Buddy. I think it is definitely a pipefish. The shot was under Town Pier. He is about an inch long and half the diameter of a piece of spaghetti. I don't know how well it will render on the web, but on the raw scan the transparent dorsal shows clearly and I am sure that this is a juvenile pipefish. Maybe someone knows exactly which species. BTW, I haven't ever tried uploading images before, so I hope this works..

Here goes....




How did I do??

Well not too good it appears.
Let's try again

There's a weird cross hatch pattern in the image. But yes, I'd agree, it does look more like a pipefish than a trunkfish. I'd be curious as to the species...

(Linda thinks pipefish too)

Jake

I vote pipefish.
geo.
(same shape as the harlequin in my Humann book, but without the stripes)

Jake,

Sorry about the crosshatch. I left the watermark on by mistake. Here is another scan, clean this time.



BTW, did you get your camera yet? My engineer is coming Thursday and he just bought the same camera.

Much better! Camera should be here end of the week, but I probably won't get a housing for it until the end of summer.

I see the dorsal fin you mentioned. How much longer was this guy?

Jake

Looks very similar to the pipefish we have up here in New England. I agree with the rest of the herd -- definitely a pipefish...

Faith

When I shot this I had the 2:1 macro framer on. I wish I had used the 1:1 framer on, but hindsight is always 20/20. He was about 1.5 inches long. I only managed to capture the amount of him that you see in the photo. He was quite active and wouldn't stay in the framer. I am missing the last half of him. He looks just like my pictures of the harlequin pipefish, but minus the brown bands.

Very neat, Steve! Carole