Northwest Dive Club

Somebody moved Keystone mermaid. She isn't hiding in a cave under the rock anymore ...

Another week of the sea star wasting drama. Still dying...

I was watching the crab crawling over the Lingcod, expecting some action.
Especially when the Ling started to open its mouth...

But the Ling obviously doesn't like crab legs and the crab liked me or my camera more.

Opalescent squid weekend of love

Jan: Yet another amazing sequence from you. Thank you for sharing your observations and your talent.
-Curt

Wow, Jan! When you told me about them yesterday, I thought they'd be interesting, but they're way better than that.

Thank you.
Just when I think there isn't much else I can waste pixels on, something else shows up.
Got to love the underwater world...

Few more - about the squid eggs.
Selfie:

Don't touch them with bare hands!

Wow, it would be unnerving to have your hands and arms go numb after handling egg capsules. Glad for the warning, although I don't intend to disturb any.

LCF wrote:Wow, it would be unnerving to have your hands and arms go numb after handling egg capsules. Glad for the warning, although I don't intend to disturb any.

Wow. I missed that somehow on the initial reading.

Here is another critter crab finds hard to swallow ...

Fascinating

It is fish inside the jellyfish time ...

All I could think of, while looking at those amazing pictures, was how brave you are to be doing macro photography that close to a Lion's Mane jelly!

Lynne,
Maybe " not too smart" might be better description than "brave"
However, I did noticed that the jellyfish was not trailing its stinging hairlike weaponry like the on last week at Holmes Harbor which got me as I was swimming through 2 feet of visibility. But at least I know that I don't suffer nasty allergic reaction to their sting.

"Eyes bigger than one's stomach".
But wait, anemones don't have eyes ...

Another critter added to my list

This Lingcod has total disregard for the "No fishing in Keystone Underwater Park" rule ...

Tough week for starry flounders- first the anemone, now this.

In honor of Robin Williams, my mind is hearing him at the beginning of Mrs. Doubtfire when he's overdubbing that cartoon:

"Hello, lunch!"

Another batch of Sea star surveys here on Whidbey.
Sea stars became so sparse, that it is a treat to find one.
Maybe that is the reason, that most localities have still healthy ones and few wasting.

My favorite sea stars (Stimpson's Sunstars) are dying at Deception Pass ... :(

I never thought that Langley would be some day without starfish.
Now it looks like that day is not too far off :(

This site manage to stay unaffected by the wasting disease. Until now. :(