Category: Nature
And now for some videos… The first video is from the encounter with the sea otter mom and her baby that I got to watch for a while at the Breakwater jetty, it was a bit rainy and windy, but I did the best I…
When mom is taking care of the babies definitely was extra extra cute!
There were plenty of babies around, which definitely increased the cuteness levels… Fun fact – baby sea otter fur is so dense that they literally can’t sink and I don’t think they can even intentionally swim down, so it is a safety thing for the…
I’ve got a couple days worth of Sea Otter photos, and they’re just going to get more and more adorable, so let’s get to it…
On another non-diving day in Monterey, we took a short trip to Pinnacles National Park. We didn’t have a ton of time, so I suggested we hike the Balconies Cliffs and Cave Trail which was a rather cool trail with a nice section through some…
I shared a photo of the first Opossum Shrimp I was shown by Eric a few weeks ago – before that I didn’t even know such a thing existed. Fast forward a few weeks, and I’m diving at Monastery Beach in Carmel just south of…
Today we’ll take a quick look at a few of the snails I’ve been finding around Monterey…
An assortment of the kind of stuff we’re seeing underwater around Monterey… Strawberry Anemones Giant Kelpfish Assorted Crabs
Well… I figured this was well worth sharing quickly… Hopefully we get some more sea otter encounters, but since I’m figuring it isn’t going to be super common, this was quite a treat…
Ok – it might take me a little while to start getting a collection of photos to share from the diving in Monterey (so far only 3 dives in so far), but to get everyone started… and maybe I’ll just do a handful of these…
Well, one good thing about diving in the PNW in the winter is it coincides with Lumpie Season. I’ve shared some other photos of Pacific Spiny Lumpsuckers before, but in the past few weeks I think I have managed a better set of photos that…
Not sure on exact IDs for most of these, but here’s an assortment of arthropods, sea fleas, worms, and others…
On a recent dive, we found a forest of Sea Whips. These are corals that grow in a single long stalk and the coral polyps radiate out to the sides. Before this dive, I’d seen a couple but this area had them as far as…
