Spot the flounder

A flowery flounder on sand in the waters off Hawaii

Yes, there’s a fish in this photo. I admit it’s not easy to see because flounders are very good at blending in. But after I took this photo, the flounder did a little shimmy, stirring up the sand. I thought it had zipped away, but realized it couldn’t have. Looking hard, I spotted two little bumps, its eyes, protruding above the smooth layer of sand. I didn’t bother taking a photo because they wouldn’t have shown up.

It’s the first time I’ve seen a flounder doing that sand shimmy. It was certainly effective.

Update: To help in spotting the flounder, in the bottom third of the photo on the right side, there’s an ear-shaped rocky bit that sticks into the sand. The sand shows mostly as lines and dots, but just to the left of the rocky bit, in the center of the photo, there’s an area of little circles. That’s the fish. After the sand shimmy, those circles were all covered with sand with only the eye bumps protruding. You can see why I didn’t bother to photograph that.

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