Northwest Dive Club

Figured I should share some of the highlights from my first dive with you folks! Thanks all for pointing stuff out for me and helping to train my eyes a bit more for the local critters. I missed critical focus on a couple of these and think I want to go back and try for some better shots of those skeleton shrimp and the hooded nudis (I had one shot looking right into the mouth of one with the hood opened and a piece of seagrass drifted right into the shot and ruined it!)

A Hooded Nudi at Alki?! Sweet!

Not "a" ... multiple. I saw at least half a dozen. They seemed to be all throughout the seagrass. That is two different individuals above, and I know I saw at least a handful more that just weren't in a spot to even try for some shots. I'm not super familiar with them - can anyone tell me if those are two different species or just different color patterns of the ones above?

Very cool!
Glad you're getting acquainted!

For the hooded nudies, they seem to vary from clear to opaque brown, with and without spots and branch-like patterns. The branches vary in color from muted blue to yellow or in your case orange. They also come in a variety of sizes. Those you saw were very small. As far as I know it is one species. I don't know what causes the variation. They're also extremely seasonal, they come and go before you know it. It has been several years since I've seen them at the junkyard. Sometimes they aggregate by the thousands at certain locations.

Was so much fun diving with you!!! Excellent snaps!!! I love hooded nudies and green sea hares! I also want to go back and see the skeleton shrimp again. It was hard to get a clean shot since they were having a party. I've never seen that many all together before

Hope the weather will let us dive with you again soon. Hopefully at keystone!!!

There is a Marker Buoy dive there tomorrow evening... I'm supposed to dive at Cove 2 in the evening, so I'm trying to find some folks who would want to dive the Junkyard earlier (I'm available any time after 2:30PM). If anyone is interested, let me know!

Hi
I can't.

FYI, I forgot to mention in our site briefing that Alki Junkyard can be current sensitive. Usually ebbs aren't too bad as they're more protected. Tomorrow's ebb should be weaker than Sunday's.

-Eric

ktuli wrote: ↑Tue Nov 09, 2021 7:44 pm There is a Marker Buoy dive there tomorrow evening... I'm supposed to dive at Cove 2 in the evening, so I'm trying to find some folks who would want to dive the Junkyard earlier (I'm available any time after 2:30PM). If anyone is interested, let me know!

I plan to be at the Junkyard arriving @ 3:30pm on Wednesday. Several others from the Marker Buoy group will be there too.