I decided to take a trip back to Wolf Rocks to see if I could find some more rattlesnakes and was not disappointed. I was surprised to realize it has been over 3 years since I first photographed the rattlesnakes there. This time I managed…
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I’ll apologize now, but today’s photos and video are really just for the stories, but bear with me (pun 100% intended!). These are the first wild grizzly bears I ever got to see and photograph (though that’s kind of a technicality). This is one of…
When I first arrived in Montana, the Flathead River – specifically the Middle Fork of the Flathead River was running a beautiful green color and looked pretty clear and not too high. By the time I left, it was running very muddy, high, and fast…
Since I was visiting Yellowstone at the very front edge of spring, I thought maybe I’d get some photos of bison in the snow. I did get a couple shots, but nothing fantastic (and technically some of these are from outside the park, but close…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Yesterday I went back to a dive site I’ve visited a bunch of times in West Seattle with a good friend, Deana. As we were about to start our dive, a couple other divers asked us for some directions to a part of the site…
