Northwest Dive Club

It was a slow Sunday for me at the Keystone Jetty ...

I went back to Keystone and tried to get some more pictures of the new inhabitants there, the Canaries did not want to cooperate - got more of the infamous TAIL photos

I went back to Keystone and tried to get some more pictures of the new inhabitants there, the Canaries did not want to cooperate - got more of the infamous TAIL photos

From the fishes to clams. And tunicates. The fight for space and dominance in the rich habitat Keystone Jetty provides, there are some critters which are not as spectacular and colorful like some of the fish there, but I find them interesting, nevertheless. Presenting a Bladderclam versus White Glov...

Thank you John. As this last posting shows, I gain from posting too, as my critter ID need some help at times
So here is work in progress - the sometimes look alike Rockfish ..
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Tom, you are probably right. The reason I put the "reddish" one with Coppers, is that I posted it once on different forum and was told: Quote: "If i remember correct the reddish coppers used to be considered a different species... known commonly as "california coppers" but h...

On my last dives at Keystone Jetty, I came across some strikingly different colored rockfish. Not hundred percent positive, but I still think they are variation of Coppers. The one in question, is the first upper one of the four pictured. :book: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1129/1363857490_9d6fc77...

While Keystone provided me with nice visibility in the last four days of diving there, today I visited Langley on rising tide near the high mark, it was bad. Under the thermocline at 32 feet it improved somewhat, maybe to twelve feet, but chunks of sea lettuce and silt floating all over the place.. ...

Whidbey Dive Center has Diver Evening Picnic at Rosario Beach on Fidalgo Island (near the Deception Pass) on Saturday 15th at 3 PM. Bring your own entree to barbecue and a side for pot luck. They supply the charcoal, barbecue pit, sodas and water. ( I quote a newsletter).

The romance is still going on at Keystone Jetty, breeding colors displayed proudly by some of the Painted Greenling pairs.

Looks like the Alaskan Skeleton shrimp (Caprella alaskana) or one of similar species. Not really a shrimp -it is amphipod.

Sorry, I didn't want to be pushy, just curious what to look forward, if I do manage to make it up north.. Thanks.

Inside the jetty rocks, Noble dorids are busy creating new generation of yellow slugs

Can you post some of the pictures from the trip?

From the murky waters of Langley Tire Reef -

Very nice pictures Tom, I think that you got them figured out right. The first one however, is very difficult one, I am struggling with the same, and it is apparent, we are not the only ones. Just check out the Slug Forum and type in white dorids .. #-o http://www.seaslugforum.net/display.cfm?id=202...

Just outside of Deception PAss, Whidbey Island, Deception Island provides a protected dive site when the currents in the pass are ripping. Not much fish life, visibility wasn't that good, but lots and lots of scallops..

It takes the entire family when Saddleback gunnels go clamming in the shallow waters off Keystone Jetty..

LCF - Thank you for your kind words, I hope you had a great dive. Sorry I missed you yesterday, I dove Langley in the morning - visibility was bad, wish I went to Keystone instead. Well, I went to Keystone this afternoon, I had a interesting dive, my drysuit leaked to point of flooding, so I was ver...

The octopus with crab dinner - what a shot !

Well, from what I saw, it was not an orgy, the other cucumbers in the vicinity did not show much interest in the gyration of the individual I was taking pictures of ...

Thin red lines, humpy looking, hope that I ID it correctly..



It is not Humpy, it is Sitka shrimp - Heptacarpus sitchensis

Langley Reef - I found that eggs are still being laid and guarded by the Painted Greenling..

Calvin, great photography. Your crab photo is actually showing the large male protecting the smaller female while she is molting. If you look closer, you willl see that the new shell is emerging. I was lucky to witness same once, unfortunately I run out of air before the whole process was finished. ...

I met this shell collector at Keystone.