UW Debut: Ft. Bragg/Mendocino

[Hippocampus]

Hello everybody,

I just got my first 'real' underwater setup, a Fuji Finepix F31fd and its Fuji housing and these are my very first pictures, many more to follow hopefully .

Since I am new to diving as well I have absolutely no idea what the names of those creatures are, I can label them 'Fish' or 'Anemone' or 'Crab', but I have no idea about their real names, so if anyone wants to comment on what I have here, feel free to do so, especially on my unknown creature, I have never seen anything like that .

All pictures are straight out of the camera, no editing at all, some with the internal flash and some with partial ambient lighting.

Glass Beach, Ft. Bragg CA:

Crab

Fish

Trash, as Glass Beach has been a dump site years ago...this one is fairly recent though, you can see pieces of glass worn smooth over the years on some of the other pictures, beachgoers are all over there collecting interesting pieces

Van Damme State Park, Mendocino, CA:

Another Fish

Starfish Detail

Anemone

And, finally my unknown creature

I hope you enjoy viewing them as much as I enjoyed taking them

 

[alcina]

That is one cool sea star - love the pattern and texture!

 

[MarkH]

That unknown one is an upside-down gumboot chiton (the largest species in the world) being eaten by an anemone. I've never seen that before. Maybe the chiton fell into the anemone's mouth and the anemone reacted by closing up around it.