Peanut Butter Jelly Time

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MaxBottomtime

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With gale force winds and deadly surf conditions I knnew there would be no diving this weekend. Merry and I went down to the marina to adjust our dock lines and pout about another non diving weekend. As we were leaving we spotted a jelly, Scrippsia pacifica floating next to the dock. I ran back to the boat and grabbed a bucket and scooped the little feller up. After taking a few surface photos we released it into the wild. I jumped into the choppy water to get a few shots from just under the surface.

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I really love these ultra-detailed pictures you guys are getting of the pelagic jellies! Look at the sieving cilia inside the bell -- my guess is that none of us have been able to resolve one of these critters well enough to see those. What a fantastic set of images!
 
I really love these ultra-detailed pictures you guys are getting of the pelagic jellies! Look at the sieving cilia inside the bell -- my guess is that none of us have been able to resolve one of these critters well enough to see those. What a fantastic set of images!

What she said.
 
Eww, you jumped into marina water? Isn't that filled with bilge and all sorts of other unmentionables? (Nice jelly shots, though!)
 
Sometimes you just have to get in the water. :)
Some of my best shots have come from dock pilings and the silty bottom surrounding them. I stand under the hose for a long time after diving there.
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Sometimes you just have to get in the water. :)
Some of my best shots have come from dock pilings and the silty bottom surrounding them. I stand under the hose for a long time after diving there.
I guess it's no different than muck diving somewhere like Lembah Strait, except that it's a lot closer (and a lot colder). I love photographing nudis in warm water and I know we have a diverse selection out here, but I've been resisting the temptation to get back into the cold. Your photos are like the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. I want to see these nudis with my own eyes (and camera), but sampling that fruit would make me leave the comfort of my Edenic warm-water wimpiness that I've fallen into, for the surge, low viz, and cold of SoCal waters.

Fortunately I have a WW trip coming up really soon and I'm getting my camera wet for the first time in almost two years (had a poorly-timed malfunction that left me anti-camera for a while). But after that, too poor to travel thus with no WW in the near future for me, I just may sample that fruit and hit you up for some recs on mucky dock pilings and other nudi sites that don't require a boat to get to. If the bug bites and I become a cold water diver again, it'll be your fault!
 

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