Monterey conditions. (let's keep it going )

[pakoR]

2 dives on Sunday at Breakwater along the wall. 55° at 50', viz 10-15 feet. Had a group of about 10 sea lions swimming around us creating a sand storm. That was an amazing experience. Here are some photos of the sea creatures. Excuse the poor quality; just getting started with underwater photography. Does anyone know what the white noodle-looking things growing around the anemones are?

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Sand dollars

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[wnissen]

Carmel looked to be a mess this morning; so, bagged it; though it was little better on the Monterey side.

One to two meters, in the shallows, tops; lots of crap suspended in the water; fog and a few wave sets . . .

Sorry. On the miso soup scale, it was basically chunky chicken noodle?

 

[wnissen]

2 dives on Sunday at Breakwater along the wall. 55° at 50', viz 10-15 feet. Had a group of about 10 sea lions swimming around us creating a sand storm. That was an amazing experience. Here are some photos of the sea creatures. Excuse the poor quality; just getting started with underwater photography. Does anyone know what the white noodle-looking things growing around the anemones are?

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• pakoR
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Sand dollars

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• pakoR
• Oct 19, 2020

The claim is that they are nudibranch eggs, laid so that the hatchlings have something to eat. Never seen those style, the ones I've seen are more like a white rose, or linguine. Neat pictures!

 

[Bigbella]

Sorry. On the miso soup scale, it was basically chunky chicken noodle?

I'd say that it was closer to my mom's winter minestre or minestrone . . .

 

[MichaelMc]

Pt. Lobos was nice yesterday. 20-30' vis out by hole in the wall at 60-70' deep. Middle reef had less vis but likely 15-20' in the mid to outer part. Both 54 degrees.

 

[Bigbella]

Two dives, this morning -- Carmel and Monterey. Soupy with surge on both sides of the peninsula; and there were a few waves, which even crashed over the Coast Guard Pier. My camera remained in the boat bag.

Weird Southern swell -- apparently the remnants of a Mexican hurricane . . .

 

[Akimbo]

The claim is that they are nudibranch eggs, laid so that the hatchlings have something to eat. Never seen those style, the ones I've seen are more like a white rose, or linguine. Neat pictures!

That is what I was told decades ago but not by marine biologists. Maybe @drbill can tell us.

 

[Bigbella]

That is what I was told decades ago but not by marine biologists. Maybe @drbill can tell us.

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My two cents would suggest that they are Aplysia -- sea hare -- egg masses, rather than nudibranch; though they are closely related, as fellow gastropods.

We've had an invasion of them over the last couple of years; and I saw a few of them reenacting a pivotal scene from Caligula, just last week . . .

 

[uspap]

They are Rainbow Nudibranch Eggs.
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What do you call nudibranch eggs that look like ramen noodles? IMPASTAS!

 

[Bigbella]

They are Rainbow Nudibranch Eggs.
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What do you call nudibranch eggs that look like ramen noodles? IMPASTAS!

Could be; but we supplied Aplysia to any number of labs over the years; and we often had those, we kept in aquaria, produce those very soba or ramen-style egg masses -- those "impostas" . . .

They are quite closely related to nudibranchs . . .