While we’re on the subject of stops along the drives to/from Monterey, Here’s a quick little video of a spot I found when I drove through Brookings, Oregon last year as I headed south. When I stopped last year, it was raining much harder and…
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On our drive down to Monterey, Ashley mentioned that she and Jake had done a dive on the Smith River outside of Crescent City, CA as a spot called the Slant River Bridge. We thought about trying to stop and hit the dive on the…
I’ve seen a few of these Red Scale Worms on a couple different nudibranchs recently. From what I can find, it looks like they are a commensal worm, which is somewhere between a symbiotic relationship and a parasite… a commensal organism benefits from its host…
I have only seen a few of these in my diving in the Pacific Northwest, and until recently the ones I have seen have been is really difficult spots to try and get a decent photo… which is a shame, becuase these little guys are…
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…
A couple of our dive days had been blown out due to high winds and forecasted high surf (they called for 20 foot waves, but we didn’t find anything that looked over 10 foot), but Big Sur is photogenic in pretty much all conditions it…
Today we’ll take a quick look at a few of the snails I’ve been finding around Monterey…
