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Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 9:14 am
by Jan K
Interesting...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 9:45 am
by Tom Nic
Who knew?
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:59 am
by fnerg
Do olive rockfish do the same thing?
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 5:52 am
by Jan K
fnerg wrote:Do olive rockfish do the same thing?
I have no idea. I am surprised that Yellowtail is capable of it. Why not others?
Maybe some expert here can explain it ...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 8:55 pm
by Jan K
Yucky ...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 12:36 pm
by Jan K
After surveying sea stars at Langley Harbor, I was asked by the harbormaster if I could
collect some of the abandoned crab traps. The lines get tangled in the mooring lines of
the new floating dock. Since there is not crabbing on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, Maya
got to work. The traps were hoisted up and after cleaning they are donated to local
Good Cheer store.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 11:31 pm
by Diver_Dave
Nice job u guys...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 6:41 am
by Jan K
When I came across this scene, I thought some worm was attacking the sea cucumber.
But my friend Ron Shimek explained to me that something entirely different is happening here ...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 8:58 am
by LCF
I would love to absorb my gut every winter. What a great way to do weight control!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 7:14 am
by Jan K
What a difference ONE week makes.
In bad visibility the dying continues unabated . :(
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 11:12 am
by Jan K
Continuing sea star wasting surveys around Whidbey, visibility is still not good, except at Possession Fingers at depth.
Starfish keep dying, somewhere more, somewhere less. Langley is showing some improvement as I found recruits
which might make it, but also might die off too. Still a rather depressing situation...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 12:42 pm
by Norris
Let's hope the cooling of the water will help this.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 7:45 am
by Jan K
Norris wrote:Let's hope the cooling of the water will help this.
I guess, time will tell ...
Meanwhile the other marine life :
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 8:52 am
by Jan K
In the currents of Keystone Jetty ...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 1:31 pm
by LCF
I remember the first time I saw an egg yolk caught by a metridium. Several small crabs were also pulling down on the tentacles, and the jelly was beating and trying to get away. I thought it was a fascinating life-and-death struggle, carried out very quietly and rather in slow motion.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 7:10 am
by Jan K
While checking the rather "boring" muck bottom at Holmes Harbor, I found hermit crab
which was not yet on my list of Whidbey Critters. In the past visits I found many of the
Blackeyed ones, but the yellow eyed one is my first encounter. It only proves that you
never know what you find on a dive, where-ever you dive
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 8:59 am
by YellowEye
Ooh yellow eyes!
Very cool!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 5:14 pm
by LCF
Good eye for detail, to notice it was different!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 6:01 pm
by Desert Diver
Others of us say we saw hermit crabs.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 11:52 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 9:59 pm
by Jan K
Now when the crab season is over, we can show claws again
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 9:49 am
by ljjames
I'm really not OK with that parasitic isopod... First brain-worms now that
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 1:39 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 10:30 pm
by Jan K
The vanishing stars :(
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 5:25 pm
by Desert Diver
I hope all the sea stars don't disappear but I think I like the new look.