Whidbey Island Critters

LCF · Post by **LCF** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 8:39 pm

That's the first time I've ever seen anybody HOLDING a wild fish!

RoxnDox · Post by **RoxnDox** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 2:31 pm

LCF wrote:That's the first time I've ever seen anybody HOLDING a wild fish!

Jan's the Fish Whisperer :-)

Jan K · Post by **Jan K** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 2:34 pm

some more from Rosario Beach tide-pools ...

LCF · Post by **LCF** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 4:16 pm

These are so much fun, Jan! It's really great, learning about the stuff we generally walk on . . .

Jan K · Post by **Jan K** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 7:27 am

The Lingcod egg laying season isn't over yet.
Very gravid female on the clay wall at Fingers:

and clay diggers in the shallows

Jan K · Post by **Jan K** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:26 am

Dorid dining on sponge - some interesting info, I think

Jan K · Post by **Jan K** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 10:22 pm

Added new critter to my list - a pretty shell too

LCF · Post by **LCF** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 11:39 pm

Looks like somebody crocheted it.

Jan K · Post by **Jan K** » Thu Mar 14, 2013 6:41 am

LCF · Post by **LCF** » Thu Mar 14, 2013 2:09 pm

I love hermit crabs, and if you stop and watch them, you can see some really interesting behavior -- some of the dominance stuff that Jan refers to. I've seen about a dozen of them at Edmonds, engaged in what appeared to be a complicated group battle of some kind. I watched it for about five minutes, and couldn't quite figure out what the prize was, but it may just have been shells.

Jan K · Post by **Jan K** » Fri Mar 15, 2013 7:58 am

Young kelp and young Wolfie :
Spring diving is waiting for you at Keystone!

Jan K · Post by **Jan K** » Fri Mar 15, 2013 7:20 pm

oldsalt · Post by **oldsalt** » Fri Mar 15, 2013 7:38 pm

I can't tell you how many people I've met who said, "I gave up diving Puget Sound because there is nothing to see there." I guess you didn't get the word.
-Curt

LCF · Post by **LCF** » Fri Mar 15, 2013 9:06 pm

OMG, it's a baby scaled crab! I love my scaled crabs, but they're ten times that size, golden brown, and markedly striped. This is an AMAZING view of a juvenile of one of my favorite species. I needed the happy pictures tonight, Jan -- thank you.

Jan K · Post by **Jan K** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 12:03 pm

Thanks Curt, Lynne for kind comments - we are, after all, kindred souls in this ..

So I read on BBC site that they documented last year Anemone catching a slug,
a first. Well , I have pictures dated May 2009, October 2012 and one
very recent on March 11, 2013. Only proves that our local waters rock !

Nwbrewer · Post by **Nwbrewer** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 3:35 pm

"Together we have made over 500 dives in the Indo-Pacific without observing sea anemones feeding on Nudibranchs"

See, there's the problem, they just don't dive as much as Jan.

Still the best thread on the internet, thanks Jan!

Jan K · Post by **Jan K** » Sun Mar 17, 2013 6:06 pm

Well, I am slowly slipping back into diving ...

Jan K · Post by **Jan K** » Mon Mar 18, 2013 9:20 am

LCF · Post by **LCF** » Mon Mar 18, 2013 9:31 am

Diatoms living on hydroids growing on algae fronds . . . that's the ocean, life growing on life!

Jan K · Post by **Jan K** » Mon Mar 18, 2013 8:19 pm

and one page of whimsical nature.
I guess, I am just glad to be diving again

LCF · Post by **LCF** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 9:01 am

I love them -- they are so colorful!

Jan K · Post by **Jan K** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 4:46 pm

And some from the first nine inch project:
I found somebody else interested in what lives in the shallows

In all the years I found Aleutian moon snail only once, back in 2009 while diving
in Holmes Harbor. This time I didn't have to get wet ...

Jan K · Post by **Jan K** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 7:24 am

LCF · Post by **LCF** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 9:08 am

Was that a really small Armina, or was that Tritonia absolutely gargantuan?

Jan K · Post by **Jan K** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 7:01 pm

The Tritonias I found there were bigger than any I encountered before...

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