I haven’t been able to get an ID on these worms, but I’ve been seeing them fairly regularly on a number of my dives in the Puget Sound and Hood Canal. Some of them are rather long, ranging up to 6-10 inches (it is hard…
Category: Underwater
Since I shared more Stubby Squids, let’s look at some more Pacific Red Octos (Octopus rubescens), including a quick video taken by Randy Williams from Washington Scuba Alliance after our trash cleanup dive (I’m the one holding the octo). It was a good thing I…
Some more Stubby Squid (Rossia pacifica) shots showing off the color range of these little bobtail squids… They tend to be the reddish color most of the time but will show that white color when scared – the iridescence when they show the lighter color…
I don’t see these as often as I would like, but the Northern Opalescent Nudibranchs (Hermissenda crassicornis) are quite pretty…
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…
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…
