Aumentos Reef and Carmel 7-12-08 and 7-13-08

[bigfrog23]

Final made it down to Monterey for a great weekend of diving. the water was worm and clean. we dove Aumentos on Saturday on the Sanctuary and had two great dive there. there was a lot of krill in the water on saturday but it was still an amazing dives. Then on sunday we were on the Cypress Sea diving in carmel. hats off to both boat hilly recommend them to any one that is going down to go diving on a boat. below are some pic from the weekend hope you guys enjoy
lingcod on the move

olive rock fish

final got a good picture of a green ling these thing sure love to tease you

my buddy haming for the camera check old out the Tussie housing with the nikon 8008

you can see all the krill in the waster at Aumentos they were all over the place

 

[bigfrog23]

here is some macro shots from the second day

 

[AndyT]

Wow - great images !! The marine life there is so similar to ours.

 

[ScubaSteve]

The macro shots are especially great. For some reason though, this one stands out for me.

 

[RTW]

Great shots.
Thanks for sharing.

 

[Larry C]

Nice stuff, BigFrog.
Really liked the shot of your buddy in the Kelp. I liked the featherduster worms as well. Great job on the two snail shots. Congrats on getting the Male Kelp Greenling to stand still, they are kind of skittish. Second shot, BTW, is a Kelp Rockfish. Olives are the guys with the row of white spots on their back next to the dorsal fin, usually found hanging around with the blues up in the water column.

 

[bigfrog23]

thanks i was half asleep when i was posting the pics. for some reason i always get the two mix up.

 

[Peter_C]

Awesome pics
Thanks for sharing.