Anacapa Pictures 8-16

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No black sea bass today, just little critters:

Navanax:

Hermit crab:

Hermit crab leaving home:

Hardly ever see these two in the same frame:

 

[clgsamson]

Nice set Ken! really really nice...

ps - when will your luck change? no black sea bass again?

 

[Jamdiver]

Lovely shots Ken, I particularly like the Hermit Crab .

You've got great lighting too and also the sand in your area looks almost like the muck diving/black sand from lembeh .

 

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Thanks caloy and Jam. Caloy I am really starting to get depressed about the black sea bass situation. I will probably have to bite the bullet and make a few trips to Catalina where, at certain sites, they are seen much more reliably than at Anacapa. Jam the island sand is dark in many areas but MUCH more granular than at Lembeh. If you stir things up at Anacapa it usually dissipates in a few seconds. At Lembeh, as I recall, if you stir it up you get this huge black nuclear cloud that hangs around for days . Plus at the CA Channel Islands there is almost always surge in the shallow areas that makes photography difficult in some respects (hanging on, finding subject, etc.) but it sure helps to dissipate any particulate stuff that you stir up.