I see one thing when I see crocodiles up close and personal: ancient engineering. These guys and gals are living dinosaurs which survived mass extinctions and who knows, with their good luck and simple but elegant design they may out-survive humans.

My photographic partner and husband, David Doubilet, and I were working in a mangrove channel in the Gardens of the Queen National Park. This marine reserve is an archipelago of islets, mangroves, and reefs located fifty miles south of Cuba. Its isolation and vigilant protection has created a Caribbean time capsule of robust reefs crowded with fish and clear water mangroves that support healthy populations of crocodiles.

I was obsessed with a strange and wonderful jellyfish floating above me