It's typical for a bunch of them to die off this time of year, following reproduction. Main thing that draws so many bald eagles to Seabeck, to scavenge them.
I have a TG-4 that I use as a backup. Great little camera that does some cool stuff, plus like having that extra level of protection of a waterproof camera in a housing. One of the big selling points is that it is one of the few cameras in its category that shoots RAW. I use RAW in my other Olympus ...
In case any of you have missed it, I'm re-posting this from the REEF critterwatcher facebook page. If you can't make the meeting, you can contact the port staff here: http://portofpt.com/about-us/staff/ I suggest emphasizing the economic importance in addition to the biological- e.g., we go up there...
Yep, it is a mysid, also called opossum shrimp because the females have a brood pouch on their underside. This kind is solitary; more often you see the schooling ones that mess up the viz in places like Sekiu and Neah Bay (and that many call 'krill', but that is a different beast- though you often s...
Her eggs are recently extruded (orange) so nowhere near ready to hatch, and wouldn't be doing it in this position anyway. I can see she has some large barnacles on her- my guess is that she somehow got flipped over and is so top-heavy from barnacles she couldn't right herself, and is too tired from ...
Question for some of the (other) old-timers out there: I was looking at an old Cousteau book on octopus and squid the other day, and it said that Keystone jetty used to have some sort of underwater port/viewer that people could look out while divers brought things like octopus up to it for them to s...
The baby "great sculpin" is actually a buffalo- note the steeper profile of the face and smaller mouth. The big giveaway though is the raised row of scales on the upper part of the back. That white adult is one strange looking beast, though.