Northwest Dive Club

Springtime at Titlow means rotten viz but there is compensation in the bloom of nudibranchs

Here are some photos from this past Monday on a dive with my buddy Mark.

There were 'gazillions' of tiny Flabellina trilineata around the pilings. Especially on the southeast corner of the outer pilings. So many that you had to watch be careful not to touch anything.



There were also a number of larger Opalescents (longhorns) Hermissenda crassicornis on both sides of the row of inner pilings.



This opalescent was a bit small, but when I saw the photograph I realized there was something even tinier right in front of the Opalescent's nose. (Anyone have an idea what that might be?)



The ledges to the south were covered with Leopards Diaulula sandiegensis





My buddy Mark also spotted a couple of Janolus fuscus, but sadly I wasn't so lucky. :(

After a long winter of finding hardly anything its great to see the return of these critters.

Dan

On that third pic, it's probably another nudi ... I got something like that at Possession Pt. ferry once. When I blew it up for a closer look it was a similar (but slightly different) nudi. Scale's about the same though.

Awesome pics, as always ... nice to know the nudis aren't disappearing all over the sound, like they seem to be at some sites ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Grateful Diver wrote:On that third pic, it's probably another nudi ... I got something like that at Possession Pt. ferry once. When I blew it up for a closer look it was a similar (but slightly different) nudi. Scale's about the same though.

Awesome pics, as always ... nice to know the nudis aren't disappearing all over the sound, like they seem to be at some sites ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Nudibranchs have been absent from most of my dives in south puget sound this winter as well.

Dan

Glad to hear this as I've seen little to none at TTN and Redondo

Glad to hear this as I've seen little to none at TTN and Redondo

Did a dive at Redondo on Mar 26th. We saw 4 different nudis: a few Noble Dorids, a Brown Horned Dorid, a Shaggy Mouse, and a few White Lined Dirona. They seem to be coming back at Redondo as well. The Brown Horned Dorid was a new find for me and my wife.

Nudibranch season is truly here! I saw a TON of various slugs at Zees and Sunrise this weekend. The lemon dorids and leopards were everywhere on Zees Reef. Many egg ribbons as well.