Northwest Dive Club

Two not so Red Irish Lords being cozy on the wall at Possession Point Fingers

Nice camo and good eyes for seeing them. RIL's are really good at that game.

Awwww they're so cute together!

Cutest picture ever! ;-)

some more from the walls of Possession Pt. Fingers :

Squat lobsters are one of my very favorite things for photographers to record -- they have those permanent "happy face" smiles, which I can't see through my mask, but show up so nicely in pictures.

This shrimp was not so lucky ...

I really like those two red dendronotid pix. Really tough guys to get a good shot of.

why do I feel lately like the jellyfish ?

The Whitespotted greenling is still guarding the eggs, most of the Bull kelp is now gone from
the vicinity ofthe eggs. I sure hope they will hatch successfully. Still no eyes showing..

Leopard sure fits this nudibranch's name ..

Jan, your work continues to fill me with awe and wonder. You're amazing.

Valerie

Thank you Val for your kind words, I am glad you enjoy my take on our critters ...
I find many more Butterfly crabs then I do Umbrellas.

Love it!! Totally looks like Darth Vader's helmet and cape. And thanks for the side-by-side on the umbrella vs. butterfly. I always get those confused on those.

- Janna

As I said, plenty of Butterflies around the rocks of Keystone Jetty ...

Wow! Nice collection. Amazing how many different colors and combination's there are. I like the black one with pink wings

nice collection indeed! and here I get all excited to find ONE crab

Blaiz wrote:nice collection indeed! and here I get all excited to find ONE crab

I hope you don't think I saw all of them on one dive ? It is usually ONE crab once in a while scenario ...

Keystone is the only place I've ever seen butterfly crabs, and I've seen them there several times, but never with a bright stripe down the middle of the carapace like the ones in your pictures, Jan. That's cool!

lol no i dont expect all on one dive, but that's a couple year's worth of collage photos at least

so far ive seen two butterfly crabs in six months, so your dozen or more.....

OK, maybe the Lingcod didn't get its black eye this way, but I can't find explanation anywhere...

Maybe that's part that sticks out of his cave and he got a tan! Nice catch though to get it from two angles.

Seriously maybe it's a sexual change thing. I know that the females tend to be much darker and that some fish do change sexes as they mature?? Guess we have to hope Greg knows.

LCF wrote:Keystone is the only place I've ever seen butterfly crabs, and I've seen them there several times, but never with a bright stripe down the middle of the carapace like the ones in your pictures, Jan. That's cool!

Maybe Greg can say yeah or nay to this. I have seen a few of these and I'm thinking that it has something to do with molting. These guys split right down the middle where the line is when they molt??

Oh my goodness! I saw the very same thing with the Ling Cod up off Vancouver Island in October! I know we're not supposed to post our pics on your thread Jan, but check this out!



I thought it was just something weird with that ONE fish - but your photo makes me think it's more than that...

- Janna

White-lined dironas are plentiful now at Lagoon Point. Wandering along the muddy bottom
meeting some interesting critters, trumpet and sapsucker among others...

Dusty2 wrote:

LCF wrote:Keystone is the only place I've ever seen butterfly crabs, and I've seen them there several times, but never with a bright stripe down the middle of the carapace like the ones in your pictures, Jan. That's cool!

Maybe Greg can say yeah or nay to this. I have seen a few of these and I'm thinking that it has something to do with molting. These guys split right down the middle where the line is when they molt??

Has to be a 'nay'- nothing to do with molting. All crabs back out of their old molt, with the split occurring where the rear of the carapace meets the abdomen.