{"id":4014,"date":"2025-08-19T03:43:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T03:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/?p=4014"},"modified":"2025-08-19T10:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T10:03:05","slug":"videos-of-healthy-fringing-reef-at-vauxhall-barbados-2015-to-early-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/2025\/08\/19\/videos-of-healthy-fringing-reef-at-vauxhall-barbados-2015-to-early-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Videos of healthy fringing reef at Vauxhall, Barbados 2015 to early 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-07-at-10.54.24\u202fPM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3961\" src=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-07-at-10.54.24\u202fPM-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-07-at-10.54.24\u202fPM-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-07-at-10.54.24\u202fPM-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-07-at-10.54.24\u202fPM-1024x575.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In the early months of 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2025, I had the good fortune to spend a lot of time snorkelling on the fringing reef at Vauxhall, Barbados, camera in hand.<\/p>\n<p>Up until early 2023, it was\u00a0a healthy reef with overall high % coral cover and high coral diversity and an abundance and diversity of fish.\u00a0 As such, it stood out from other fringing reefs in the Marine Protected Area which were (and still are) highly degraded.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning in early 2023, Vauxhall Fringing Reef degraded significantly due to the arrival of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease, extreme warming\/coral bleaching events, and extreme physical disturbance associated with Hurricane Beryl.<\/p>\n<p>I have put together a set of videos to illustrate the overall healthy state of the Vauxhall Fringing Reef 2015 to early 2023.<\/p>\n<p>View <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/bb-observations\/healthy-reef-series\/\">Healthy Fringing Reef Videos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early months of 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2025, I had the good fortune to spend a lot of time snorkelling on the fringing reef at Vauxhall, Barbados, camera in hand. Up until early &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/2025\/08\/19\/videos-of-healthy-fringing-reef-at-vauxhall-barbados-2015-to-early-2023\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,15,10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbados","category-extreme-warming-coral-bleaching","category-hurricanes","category-sctld","category-vauxhall-reef"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4014"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4064,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions\/4064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}