We got beat up by the swells today but had better then twenty feet visibility as a trade off. Unfortunately all the animals were hiding. Kevin, Merry and I made eighty minutes dives on the crane in our last attempt to find the undescribed Doto. We were shut out again. Even the eels were nowhere in sight.
Oxylebius pictus, Painted Greenling
Sebastes auriculatus, Brown rockfish
Sebastes atrovirens, Kelp Rockfish
Sebastes serriceps, Treefish, juvenile
Distaplia sp.
Pyura haustor, solitary sea squirt
Astrangia lajollaensis, Colonial cup coral
Crassedoma giganteum, Rock scallop
Astrometis sertulifera, Fragile Rainbow star
Panulirus interruptus, California Spiny Lobster
Lead for Captain Andy
At Golf Ball Reef we had a similar dive. We usually find hundreds of nudibranchs, octopus and juvenile rockfish but the place was a ghost town. I found less than a dozen nudis in over an hour. Meh.
Fauchea laciniata, Blue branching seaweed
Protula sp.
Acarnus erithacus, Red Volcano Sponge
Phimochirus californiensis, Hermit crab
Scorpaena guttata, California scorpionfish
Kelletia kelletii, Kellet's whelk
Doriopsilla albopunctata
Triopha catalinae
Berthella californica
Oxylebius pictus, Painted Greenling
Sebastes auriculatus, Brown rockfish
Sebastes atrovirens, Kelp Rockfish
Sebastes serriceps, Treefish, juvenile
Distaplia sp.
Pyura haustor, solitary sea squirt
Astrangia lajollaensis, Colonial cup coral
Crassedoma giganteum, Rock scallop
Astrometis sertulifera, Fragile Rainbow star
Panulirus interruptus, California Spiny Lobster
Lead for Captain Andy
At Golf Ball Reef we had a similar dive. We usually find hundreds of nudibranchs, octopus and juvenile rockfish but the place was a ghost town. I found less than a dozen nudis in over an hour. Meh.
Fauchea laciniata, Blue branching seaweed
Protula sp.
Acarnus erithacus, Red Volcano Sponge
Phimochirus californiensis, Hermit crab
Scorpaena guttata, California scorpionfish
Kelletia kelletii, Kellet's whelk
Doriopsilla albopunctata
Triopha catalinae
Berthella californica
