Another ambush predator, but this time in the chilly waters of the Pacific Northwest, these Buffalo Sculpin (at least I think they are all Buffalo Sculpin) have a camouflage that basically makes them look like a grumpy rock with eyeballs…
Category: Washington
Headed back to Pacific Northwest waters for some more cold water diving and so I thought maybe it would be a good idea to share some fish photos from the archives before I collect some more… Enjoy!
Maybe I should have posted these a few weeks ago on Halloween… Regardless, here are some more Skeleton Shrimp photos from both Florida and Washington. Looking at these again, I realize just how hard these tiny critters are to find… now imagine doing it underwater,…
Found in the Pacific Northwest, Bay Pipefish (Syngnathus leptorhynchus) could sometimes be found among the eel grass, and like most things in the PNW were rather larger than my expectations and I guess explains why I seem to only have photos of their faces and…
When they are young, Wolf Eels are reddish in colour…
One of my favorite nudibranchs from the PNW… here are some more White-lined Dironas (Dirona albolineata).
Found this little guy hanging out in an old beer bottle in Washington…
Just because who couldn’t use an octet of octos now and then? From Washington, Florida, and Bali…
Another regular sight on many of the dives in Puget Sound, the various species of Rockfish were always fun to see. I learned that some of them can live to be 95 years old! For a relatively small fish, I was quite surprised by that.
I shared some other photos from Kubota Gardens in Seattle, WA already… but I figured I’d share the rest of the set. Enjoy.
One of the unique species of nudibranchs I wanted to see while in the Pacific Northwest, I was happy to find Hooded Nudibranchs (Melibe leonina). They are special in that while most nudibranchs feed on stationary prey like sponges, hydroids, and corals, the Hooded Nudi…
A somewhat common family of fish in the PNW, gunnels tend to stay along the bottom, so while they might be easy to find, getting a good photo of them was sometimes a challenge.
Found on one of my last dives in the Pacific Northwest, this Mosshead Warbonnet (Chirolophis nugator) started out pretty shy, but after leaving it to go check out another subject and then returning it let me get a couple nice photos…
A somewhat common goby found in Puget Sound, these Blackeye Gobies (Rhinogobiops nicholsii) were sometimes very abundant on certain dives.
