Halfway Reef (Palos Verdes) last weekend

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Merry

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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.
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Pyrosoma atlanticum, a colonial tunicate
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A lone squid egg
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Antiopella barbarensis
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Flatworm, Pseudoceros luteus
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Phil's "potato" sponge - yet undescribed, but an investigator is working on it.
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Cuthona divae laying eggs
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Tritonia festiva
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Olive rockfish, Sebastes serranoides
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Kellet's whelk laying eggs
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Metridium sp.
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Ancula gibbosa
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Polycera atra laying eggs
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Henricia sp.
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Hermissenda opalescens preying on nudibranch eggs - an explosion of them right now.
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Triopha catalinae
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