We enjoyed more than thirty feet of visibility at Torrance Reef this morning. I spent the first forty-five minutes looking for interesting subjects. I found two or three. 
As I headed back toward the anchor I found a California scorpionfish perched on the edge of the reef. I then spotted Merry photographing a two-spot octopus. We spent a lot of pixels between those subjects. As the dive was nearly done, I saw an Apolemia Uvaria floating by. The usual nudibranchs were hiding. I got a bycatch of another Thordisa bimaculata next to a clump of white bacteria. I didn't see it until I got home.
Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacteria with Thordisa bimaculata in the upper left corner
Apolemia Uvaria
Fauchea laciniata, Blue branching seaweed
Paraconcavus pacificus, Red-striped acorn barnacle
Panulirus interruptus, California Spiny Lobster
Unidentified anemone
Cephaloscyllium ventriosum, Swell shark egg case
Halichoeres semicinctus, Rock wrasse male
Scorpaena guttata, California scorpionfish
Octopus bimaculatus, Verrill's Two-spot Octopus
Navanax inermis
Orienthella trilineata
As I headed back toward the anchor I found a California scorpionfish perched on the edge of the reef. I then spotted Merry photographing a two-spot octopus. We spent a lot of pixels between those subjects. As the dive was nearly done, I saw an Apolemia Uvaria floating by. The usual nudibranchs were hiding. I got a bycatch of another Thordisa bimaculata next to a clump of white bacteria. I didn't see it until I got home.
Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacteria with Thordisa bimaculata in the upper left corner
Apolemia Uvaria
Fauchea laciniata, Blue branching seaweed
Paraconcavus pacificus, Red-striped acorn barnacle
Panulirus interruptus, California Spiny Lobster
Unidentified anemone
Cephaloscyllium ventriosum, Swell shark egg case
Halichoeres semicinctus, Rock wrasse male
Scorpaena guttata, California scorpionfish
Octopus bimaculatus, Verrill's Two-spot Octopus
Navanax inermis
Orienthella trilineata
