¡Vídeos maravillosos!

A new Youtube video of one of the bay's cutest little citizens, the Barnaclebill Blenny, Hyposoblennius brevipinnis with the funny Spanish name of borracho vacilón. The vacilón part seems a little hard to precisely translate but all the options are entertaning like, joker, fun lover and perhaps even, drunk in Cuban slang, making him double drunk and a lotta fun which they are.

The fish I see are inch long or so and not easily found. I know of five dependable locations in my mile of surf/turf. They live in tubes built by other creatures and don't stray far from the home tube in my observations in the daytime.

The fish shown in the field of Red Epizoanthids require a six foot plunge and the return to the surface with limited time to get set for photos. The videos are bouncy but the degree of difficulty is akin to videoing a bird in a tree at the far limit of the telephoto lens. A small move at your end makes a large impact on the product.

The video is the latest in a series of single species videos to document fish types of Zihuatanejo Bay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoZmR7Ekv8Q&t=2s

I did not announce the last video of a similarly cute and tiny tube Blenny with an ironically humorous name,

Angel Blenny, Coralliozetus angelicus a while ago. Enjoy both.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od3zuXARrss&t=9s

The existence of these tiny, hard to find and then hard to see species that have not been widely known is just one more example of the interconnectivity of our natural world. All the videos are public and I encourage Zihua citizens especially and other Zihu lovers to share the videos widely to increase awareness. Youtube informs me that because of my shameful use of Jesse Cook's, "breathing below surface", that no monetary gain can accrue, so the widespread sharing is only ecologically educational, IN NATURE(punny).

No one has shared more links to these videos than Don Roberto right here and I truly appreciate that specific sharing and even the KEYWORD inclusions in my postings for some other person or kid web searching for information about a fish they wish to learn about. I was that person once and I still am. There is a link to more information in the video description and my own, borracho vacilón, is rocking two screen names in Juan Rojo and the drunken reversed French version of Ron Woheau. Since the Ron Woheau name is made up I may be the only one out there and so a simple Google image search produces a lot of Zihuatanejo fish photos which in turn link back to previous posts here or to the mexican-fish.com database. A bit sadly the contribution to the information world that I am most proud of gets attributed to a fake guy but that's not a big deal.

From double drunk to double happiness (songhay), like the signature says, Please be happy always.

I am humbled by and grateful for what you share here. Unfortunately very few of our so-called responsible authorities appear to be paying attention or to care about the message conveyed by your incredible videos. They try sell all the miracles of nature Zihuatanejo’s residents and visitors are blessed with, then call it “economic growth.” Sometimes I feel like I might be one of the last holdouts in paradise trying to save our beautiful region from a gang of rapists and thugs.

Protecting and promoting Zihuatanejo‘s NATURAL beauty, in other words what Zihuatanejo ALREADY IS, is much more likely to generate generations of prosperity for the average hard-working local family than trying to make Zihuatanejo be what it isn’t. We will hopefully never become the next Acapulco. We can do better! But that sure looks like the game plan because the rapists and thugs are in charge.

So I see your videos not just as pretty pictures, but as a very well-done preservation and celebration of some of the incredible treasures of this region. And I also see them as evidence to hold against the rapists and thugs. You may have helped slow down the loss of parts of our coast.

¡Mil gracias!

BTW, “vacilar” also means “to hesitate, to waver.” So calling someone “vacilón” can also suggest someone or something that moves in a jerking manner. I believe that may be where the “drunk” interpretation comes from. So how does the little Blenny move? In a jerky fashion? Hesitantly?

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"I get the feeling that this is the last time in history when the offbeats like me will have a chance to live free in the nooks and crannies of the huge and rigid structure of an increasingly codified society. Fifty years from now I would be hunted down in the street. They would drill little holes in my skull and make me sensible and reliable and adjusted."
Travis McGee from "The Quick Red Fox" (1964) John D. MacDonald