Merry
Contributor
Phil and I expected yuck vis and plenty of surge, but NO! Twenty-five feet vis at the bottom with a gentle, current-driven parade of thousands of pyrosomes. Of course, neither of us brought a WA lens.
Caprellid amphipod on a pyrosome.
Pyrosoma atlanticum, a colonial tunicate
A lone squid egg
Antiopella barbarensis
Flatworm, Pseudoceros luteus
Phil's "potato" sponge - yet undescribed, but an investigator is working on it.
Cuthona divae laying eggs
Tritonia festiva
Olive rockfish, Sebastes serranoides
Kellet's whelk laying eggs
Metridium sp.
Ancula gibbosa
Polycera atra laying eggs
Henricia sp.
Hermissenda opalescens preying on nudibranch eggs - an explosion of them right now.
Triopha catalinae
Caprellid amphipod on a pyrosome.
Pyrosoma atlanticum, a colonial tunicate
A lone squid egg
Antiopella barbarensis
Flatworm, Pseudoceros luteus
Phil's "potato" sponge - yet undescribed, but an investigator is working on it.
Cuthona divae laying eggs
Tritonia festiva
Olive rockfish, Sebastes serranoides
Kellet's whelk laying eggs
Metridium sp.
Ancula gibbosa
Polycera atra laying eggs
Henricia sp.
Hermissenda opalescens preying on nudibranch eggs - an explosion of them right now.
Triopha catalinae