Blue Heron Bridge Trolls

[mntlblok]

Size



Hmmm. I would have bet a lot that this nudi would have been smaller than the smallest of such gobies. It now makes me greatly wonder about other size estimates I've made about things I've run across under water. . .

Kevin

 

[mntlblok]

OK. Now that I see that it was at least "shorter" than the goby, I don't feel *quite* as befuddled.

Kevin

Hmmm. I would have bet a lot that this nudi would have been smaller than the smallest of such gobies. It now makes me greatly wonder about other size estimates I've made about things I've run across under water. . .

Kevin

 

[blackvans1234]

Haha wright, you don't feel like exploring the unexplored!!?!?

(PS all- I'm rich )

 

[bilsant]

I'm pretty sure from reading the GCS board profiles that you're telling us your name is Rich...correct?

If so, then welcome and pleased to meet you.

 

[bilsant]

"I've since learnt that he was a Scaly-Tailed Mantis (Lysiosquilla scabricauda)."

Kevin,

I ran into this fellow the other day. Was this what you saw? I didn't notice a den, but then I wasn't looking for one...

 

[mntlblok]

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"I've since learnt that he was a Scaly-Tailed Mantis (Lysiosquilla scabricauda)."

Kevin,

I ran into this fellow the other day. Was this what you saw? I didn't notice a den, but then I wasn't looking for one...

Pretty sure that's one of those ciliated false squillas (squillae?) - or something like that. This guy was four or five times that big. One of the coolest critters I've ever seen. Killed me to miss getting a shot of him. . .

Kevin

 

[blackvans1234]

I'm pretty sure from reading the GCS board profiles that you're telling us your name is Rich...correct?

If so, then welcome and pleased to meet you.

Yep, Richie B, that's me

Counting down until I'm Florida bound! (11 days)

How often you dive BHB Bilsant?

 

[bilsant]

from time to time....I fear I'm not a regular. But I love following the thread even when I'm not diving in the area. Just the photos alone are an education.

 

[mntlblok]

Sharptail

I had previously, though often, run across these guys only near the channel wall at the western edge of the site, and in amongst the brown, weedy stuff (algae?) just to the east and north of said area. This guy, however, was out in the plains of the south, off beyond the western beach entry area. Also, rather than slithering around the bottom on a hunt, he had his head poking out of a hole in the sand, which initially had me thinking that I had lucked into some *other* kind of (snake?) eel. But, alas, it was only a particularly large version of the typical hunter, merely in an unusual (to me) pose and location.

Interestingly, it seems that this position might have had an effect on his urge to pose. Or, maybe he was blind or stupid. Anyway, at least for a while, he allowed me to get close enough to utilize 60mm lens, even with the wet diopter added to the port.

Kevin

 

[mntlblok]

Gingivae

Interestingly, it seems that this position might have had an effect on his urge to pose. Or, maybe he was blind or stupid. Anyway, at least for a while, he allowed me to get close enough to utilize 60mm lens, even with the wet diopter added to the port.

Kevin

But, be warned. They will only take so much. You could be gummed to death if yer not careful. . .

Kevin