Northwest Dive Club

Stunning

Hear! Hear! Hear! Crowd at Deception Pass !

The Lighter Side of Sea Star Wasting Syndrome survey.
I left my Spare Air at home for this dive, found a better substitute ...





BTW Best visibility I have seen at Langley in more than decade ...

It was interesting to watch how fast the Green sea urchins scramble to get away from the small Sunflower star.
Especially the smaller ones.

Very cool!

I enjoy your wit with the beer bottle.For these specialty ales, Rogue Brewery donates a portion of its proceeds to the Oregon Coast Aquarium. In addition to the Wasted Sea Star, they have had several critter watcher favorites: Wolf Eel Ale, Spiney Lumpsucker Ale, Sea Otter Ale, Whale Ale (in honor of Keiko), and Shark's Tooth Ale. For wreck divers it has Sunken Vessale. Their Newport Brewery is nestled among the aquarium, Hatfield Marine Science Center, and NOAA's West Coast headquarters. At times it shares a parking lot with a dive shop (They seem to come and go.). It's a favorite stop while coastal whale watching.
-Curt

Curt,
thank you for the info on the brewery. They seem like nice people, supporting good cause while drinking beer looks like a win win thing for the divers and the brewery

Tubesnout lovers in the Bull kelp forest

Good visibility keeps me coming back to Keystone ...

What love does to the Painted greenling ...

And to prove that all that dancing and outfit change works - clusters of eggs to guard..

Sea stars and sea urchins. Interesting eating habits.
How they eat, what they eat.

Fascinating! I love the photo with the urchins trying to escape the star.

I've only seen the orange patches on the pectoral fins of the tubesnouts in late winter mating coloring. Have you seen that other times, Jan?

Thank you, Lynne.
After looking through my files, only time I have seen Tubesnout displaying orange here on Whidbey is May and June.

Look what I found

Our cucumbers

And rest of the cucumbers I found on Whidbey Island so far ...

Deception Pass dives - May 11th and 12th.

Oregon Hairy Tritons are now laying eggs at Keystone Jetty. Lots of eggs ...

For male Blackeye goby, mating is a black tie event

Not an underwater critter, but heron feed on fish, there is water in the pictures and one of them made it to our local newspaper.
Something big & yellow floating in the background

New tunicate shows up on the seawall at Langley harbor...

So, is this considered an invasive species? It's certainly pretty.

Yes Lynne, on some sites it is considered an invasive species.

And now a little bit of info how some crabs are made.

What beautiful scaled crab photos! That's my favorite crab species, after the PSKC.