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Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun May 24, 2015 11:22 am
by YellowEye
Agreed! Those scale crabs are cool!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 10:19 pm
by Jan K
Thanks Lynne, Eric.
Memorial Day weekend was favorable for diving, even if little bit early in the day and rather gray and gloomy above.
On Sunday only two divers, but today it was different story. Lots of divers, few came armed with spearguns to get their Lingcod,
more of us were shooting with cameras
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 4:14 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 5:45 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 2:19 pm
by Jan K
Adding a small and transparent critter to my list.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 2:51 pm
by ScubaJess
Wow super cool! I love Jellys!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 12:44 pm
by Jan K
Another first for me - Scalyhead sculpin eggs, guarded by the male inside an empty barnacle shell ...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun May 31, 2015 7:02 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 6:46 am
by Jan K
small school of new fish fry at Keystone:
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 6:34 pm
by Jan K
Snails scavengers on dead Buffalo sculpin
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 9:29 pm
by Jan K
Decorating is part of crab's life. At least there is a lot to choose from
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2015 12:29 am
by LCF
A decorator crab was the catalyst that made me fall in love with Puget Sound diving. On my 4th OW class dive, the instructor picked up a small one and let it crawl on his glove, and then handed it to me. I watched the graceful animal and was amazed . . . I haven't stopped feeling that way in the 10 years I've been diving here, and I still love decorator crabs.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2015 5:55 pm
by Jan K
Plankton soup = mostly bad visibility.
For the Red sea cucumbers:
Plankton soup = good eating ...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2015 4:15 am
by LCF
I love watching them feed. It enlivens low viz dives
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2015 8:56 pm
by Jan K
So far, all well at Coupeville among the sea stars there ...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 9:03 pm
by Jan K
Can survive out of water, but so far I found them only underwater.
I never thought of looking for Cockscombs walking along the beach ...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 9:36 pm
by YellowEye
Cool! I've seen lots of gunnels (crescent gunnels) under rocks when tide pooling at Alki Lighthouse. In fact they're so common, it seems there are way more under rocks than you ever see diving!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2015 6:23 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 6:58 am
by Tidepool Geek
Hi Jan,
Great post & terrific photos as always!
For those interested, here are some background links:
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-new ... get-sound/ (The recent Times article)
http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps_oa/m525p153.pdf (The research paper on which the article is based)
http://www.int-res.com/articles/suppl/m525p153_supp.pdf (Data supplement to the research paper)
Ecologically yours,
Alex
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 2:57 pm
by Jan K
Thank you Alex for providing the links...
So much work went into the study from which I used only a small graphic table.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 8:49 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2015 7:48 am
by Jan K
Time to tend the eggs, the courtship is over, no more black fin displays, no more serenading ...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 3:01 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 11:22 pm
by Tangfish
So cool, Jan! We Washingtonians need to claim a few sea creature names to play catch up, soon.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 7:26 am
by Jan K
Thanks Calvin. Somewhere I read that gooye duck was a candidate
Little color from Keystone rocks: