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…
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…
I’ve shared some photos of Hooded Nudibranchs before, and I’m sure if you’ve watched my dive compilation videos you’ve seen clips of other nudibranchs… but Hooded Nudibranchs are really unique. I mean really unique – and honestly a bit weird. Let’s start with the obvious…
Because why not? A variety of the nudibranch shots I’ve been getting recently…
Some of the recent fish portraits from the Puget Sound…
Lego-man found a few more nudibranchs (some larger than himself) and a Squat Lobster…
Chitons are a type of mollusk that have a series of overlapping plates instead of a full single shell. I feel this tends to make them look much more like armor than a shell. Either way – they come in a ton of different colors!
I’ve had a few new octopus encounters since I came back up to the PNW. I think all of these are GPOs (the second one definitely is as it was a quite massive octo, but there is a possibility that the other two might be…
