Northwest Dive Club

Langley Harbor, December 22, 2023 dive. Soggy world above, checking up the world underwater and finding it crowded with hordes of Northern Kelp Crabs. The interesting part, there is not kelp forest anywhere in the vicinity. I came across a pile of Bull kelp stipe laying on the seafloor, not lifted a...

Deception Pass, December 20, 2023 dive. And the rest of pixels. Merry Christmas ! https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-fKXFTvs/0/61e0988b/XL/12.20.23%20Deception%20Pass%20%20diving-XL.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-bJKvTkf/0/dbae69bd/XL/12.20.23%20Proliferating%20anemones-XL.jp...

Deception Pass, December 20, 2023 dive. Although the current tables were not too optimistic, using caution, we dipped our toes in it. The whole island was in dense fog when we entered, but blue skies greeted us when we exited one hour later. As expected, the visibility was not good thanks to the eve...

Skyline, December 16, 2023 dive. Shrimps and crabs... https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-Cn6fjHZ/0/b655cee8/XL/12.16.23%20Candy%20stripe%20shrimp-XL.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-BxWqCwC/0/dc331165/XL/12.16.23%20parasite%20on%20Candy%20shrimp-XL.jpg https://photos.smugmug.co...

Skyline, December 16, 2023 dive. Silty, very silty. Couple closeups of slugs, coral, tubers, urchin, critters which do't run when you approach them. :) https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-tSCkpkx/0/6ce7eb63/XL/12.16.23%20Skyline%20Dive%201-XL.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-C9d...

Driftwood Park, December 14, 2023 dive. Plenty of silt, poor on marine life diversity. Not a single rockfish at the tire reef. Even the cucumbers are hiding in the glass jars. https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-KMfgxKF/0/96dc1f22/XL/12.14.23%20Driftwood%20Park%20Dive%201-XL.jpg https://photo...

Keystone Jetty, December 10, 2023. And as usual, the rest of the pixels. https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-mNnBGnT/0/4d67ff8f/XL/12.10.23%20Wrinkled%20dogwinkle%20aggregate-XL.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-8BZwDQc/0/de5d2808/XL/12.10.23%20%20Green%20urchins-XL.jpg https://p...

Keystone Jetty, December 10, 2023 dive . Little more of the juvenile King crab encounter and some of the fish pixels. :) https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-4RRh3CL/0/4c4a0beb/XL/12.10.23%20%20juv%20PS%20King%20crab%20-XL.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-tXdb4hG/0/e2c180f6/XL/12...

Keystone Jetty, December 10, 2023 dive. Early morning favorable current predictions called for early rising, for most of them, but that did not deter the dedicated group of divers I had the pleasure meet at the Jetty. Some of them I met for the first time at the parking lot, and some of them again l...

Keystone Jetty, December 8, 2023. After leaving the Piling, current took me to more picturesque Jetty where I finished my dive. The Japanese wireweed is starting up to occupy the area along the jetty, beating the Bull kelp in the completion for space in the shallows. https://photos.smugmug.com/Lates...

Keystone Pilings, December 8, 2023. I don't visit the Pilings often, what used to be a wonderful shallow dive became sort of a wasteland, void of diversity. Gone are the multitudes of rockfish, crabs of so many kind, tunicates, sponges, sea stars, nudibranchs.... Even the anemones are fewer and tube...

Possession Point Fingers, December 6, 2023 dive. https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-htV9Vh7/0/9c768190/XL/12.6.23%20Possession%20Fingers%20%20Dive%201-XL.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-tSrczhn/0/e1d9d058/XL/12.6.23%20Rough%20piddock%20-XL.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest...

Holmes Harbor, December 3, 2023. In addition to the silt making visibility bad, there are also tiny organism called plankton. Of course, they are floating, swimming around most of the time and are part of the life underwater, but this time I could actually see some of it once I put the picture on la...

Holmes Harbor, December 3, 2023 dive. The Pineapple Express continues to keep the rains coming and the rivers flooding. Silt was the menace on this dive... I wonder how it feels to be a Hooded nudibranch and scooping up some of that silt looking for food... https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i...

Langley Harbor, December 2, 2023 dive. The rest of pixels https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-cDxGRfL/0/feb84fc8/XL/12.2.23%20wasting%20Mottled%20star-XL.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-fGfwcpN/0/e25634a0/XL/12.2.23%20twisted%20Ochre%20star-XL.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/Lat...

Langley Harbor, December 2, 2023. Neck seal got replaced, back to dry diving (for the time being as they stay dry only so long) 🙂 . While I was waiting for the drysuit fix, all the Whitespotted greenling eggs hatched, no sign of them or the male guardian. And the Nanaimo dorids laid their eggs on fe...

Deception Pass, November 21, 2023 dive. Leaky neck seal shortened my dive by adding lots of cold water inside my suit, making my dive rather unpleasant. The Kelp greenlings are in mating mode, overall, this time, there was very little color at the Pass.. https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-sv...

Langley Harbor, November 18, 2023 dive. The rest of pixels. How the second Whitespotted greenling male convinced females to deposit their eggs in such confined spot is amazing. But looking at the number of unfertilized eggs in that bunch tells me that it was not a best place to start new family. htt...

Langley Harbor, November 18, 2023 dive. The visibility was so good on Friday that I returned on Saturday to enjoy more of it. Well, although there was no rain, no wind, same high tide cycle, the great visibility did not survive 24 hours. Saturday provided almost 20 feet visibility, instead of 30. We...

Langley Harbor, November 17, 2023 dive. The rest of the pixels. And Happy Thanksgiving ! :) https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-Zb7s6Pk/0/8c569615/XL/11.17.23%20Whitespotted%20greenling%20male%20color-XL.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-b9WLzbj/0/a304cb83/XL/11.17.23%20White%20g...

Langley Harbor, November 17, 2023. Clouds of forage fish. Pacific herring in the shallower water, Shiner perch below it. Dead Spotted Ratfish in the floating dock mooring mess. Very interesting dive in good visibility. https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-J5CzhMs/0/eb4b85f5/XL/11.17.23%20Langl...

Possession Point Fingers, November 16, 2023 dive. https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-gXgqSr5/0/25462884/XL/11.16.23%20Possession%20Fingers%20Dive%201-XL.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-sPPfZbv/0/aaba56e8/XL/11.16.23%20Dock%20shrimp-XL.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-phot...

Keystone Jetty, November 14, 2023 dive. Barnacles already growing on juvenile Puget Sound King crab. They will be gone after next molding ... https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-JvkhpMw/0/af156ac6/XL/11.14.23%20%20Keystone%20Jetty%20Dive%201-XL.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/Latest-photos/i-2...

Driftwood Pond #2, November 10, 2023 dive. The Glassy Bubble Shell slugs took residence in this pond. None are found in Pond #1. Not laying eggs yet. They seem to feed in the shallows on Japanese fireweed, on green Hair algae and Sea lettuce as well in the deeper parts of pond on stuff associated wi...

Driftwood Pond #2. November 10,2023 dive. The two ponds, so close together, and yet so different always puzzled me. So it was just natural, after diving with so many Moon jellies in #1 to see if what I can find in # 2. And as expected, not single Moon jelly.... But I found small anemone which I only...