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by dwashbur
Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:06 pm
Forum: Dive Planning
Topic: Edmonds Oil Dock Info Needed
Replies: 11
Views: 4225

Edmonds Oil Dock Info Needed

Basically, I just need to know how long the various parts of it are: how long is the part sticking out into the water, and how wide is the T part. Anybody know, or know where I could find that info?

Mucho thanko,
by dwashbur
Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:54 pm
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Going, Going, Gone!
Replies: 3
Views: 2080

Going, Going, Gone!

That's what this guy did. During our final dive at Monterey, under Wharf #2, we encountered this little guy, about 3-4 inches long. As we watched, he stood on his tail, dug a hole with it, worked his way down and vanished. Malinda and I just stared, astonished, while Kathy snapped pictures with the ...
by dwashbur
Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:51 pm
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Fish ID help -- Sorry, no pictures
Replies: 17
Views: 2158

Here's a Northern Clingfish we found at Cove 2 back on 12/26 along the NDZ line during a night dive...

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by dwashbur
Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:09 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: A New Sculpin For Us?
Replies: 21
Views: 4869

I see two possible ways to view sculpins: either a) a challenge, or b) annoying!

(I'll go with a...)
by dwashbur
Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:43 pm
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Little Pink Fish
Replies: 6
Views: 1786

More Fish to ID

Well, I wonder if the moldy oldy book can help with a bunch of rockfish that we encountered, all on the same dive. I've got no less than 7 shots at the location below of rockfish that we can't ID with the books we have. We found at least 2 or 3 varieties that were new to us that we were able to ID, ...
by dwashbur
Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:29 pm
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Little Pink Fish
Replies: 6
Views: 1786

You mean I gotta buy ANOTHER book????? Awwwww, shucky darn Image Humann doesn't even have a picture, just lists it in passing while talking about the other snailfish. Thanks, Janna!
by dwashbur
Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:09 pm
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: BIG Worm!
Replies: 8
Views: 1758

Okay, you totally floored me with that one!
by dwashbur
Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:08 pm
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: BIG Worm!
Replies: 8
Views: 1758

Jan K wrote:Leslie travels a lot, maybe she is hunting for worms in tropical waters ... :)
If that's the case, then I'm really jealous!
by dwashbur
Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:06 pm
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: dwashbur is quite the critter guy!!
Replies: 5
Views: 1091

Oh yeah, we do the REEF thing. We took Janna's course several months ago up in Port Angeles. Needless to say, she's very good :prayer:
by dwashbur
Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:04 pm
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: dwashbur is quite the critter guy!!
Replies: 5
Views: 1091

We're a family of divers: me, my wife Kathy, and daughter Malinda, known to this board and Northwest Diver as Chenari. We actually live in Boise; my wife is a Travel Nurse, which means she takes short-term assignments - usually 13 weeks - in various places. I normally travel with her, since I'm not ...
by dwashbur
Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:41 pm
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Little Pink Fish
Replies: 6
Views: 1786

Little Pink Fish

We found this little fellow at Wharf #2 in Monterey on our final dive, which happened to be a night dive. He was really fun to watch, because he kept trying to find an opening in all that red bryozoan to hide in. He was maybe 3" long, and has us thoroughly stumped. The only possibility we can f...
by dwashbur
Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:15 pm
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: A New Sculpin For Us?
Replies: 21
Views: 4869

You won't find it in any of the books - or at least I haven't. Just from my observations - and it alone can't tell you what it is, but it does give a good clue. In Scalyheads there are three rather X shaped red lines usually through the eyes. In younger Great Sculpins there are two, forming a nice ...
by dwashbur
Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:56 pm
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: BIG Worm!
Replies: 8
Views: 1758

I posted it on the other board as well, but she hasn't responded so far.
by dwashbur
Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:52 pm
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: A New Sculpin For Us?
Replies: 21
Views: 4869

Interesting! I never paid that much attention to the direction of the bars in the eyes before, and I haven't really seen anything in the books about that. Can you elaborate? As you may have guessed by now, I've become a hopeless sculpophile...
by dwashbur
Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:07 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: A New Sculpin For Us?
Replies: 21
Views: 4869

Dave, I'm pretty sure the ones you saw and posted photos of were Coralline Sculpins. I wholeheartedly agree on your ID. And Rich, your second photo is most likely a Padded Sculpin, not a Scalyhead Sculpin. The absence of cirri, and the presence of round looking scales about the lateral line, as wel...
by dwashbur
Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:04 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Mystery Nudibranch!
Replies: 8
Views: 1988

Cool! That's yet another new one for us, as if we didn't know that, heh heh. That makes at least 8 new nudis from our Monterey trip. But I think I'm gonna have to post this guy at the Sea Slug Site as well, just as an interesting sighting.
by dwashbur
Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:57 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: I got a new Camera
Replies: 6
Views: 1099

Re: I got a new Camera

Nwbrewer wrote:
Uh, dude, you are a little crazy....
You say that like it's a bad thing...
by dwashbur
Mon Jan 28, 2008 4:46 pm
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Mystery Nudibranch!
Replies: 8
Views: 1988

The cerata match, all right, but I don't see a frontal veil in his picture, and if those are the rhinophores in the lower right corner of the picture, they don't match. Then again, I don't have any better ideas at this point. Yes, this was in Monterey. It was on the big pipe that leads out to the me...
by dwashbur
Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:21 pm
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Mystery Nudibranch!
Replies: 8
Views: 1988

Jan K wrote:Dave, whatever it is - great find ! I have no idea either :supz: :book:
Holy guacamole... (with apologies to Miss Piggy) If you don't know, then I don't feel so bad!
by dwashbur
Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:07 pm
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Just Hanging Out...
Replies: 0
Views: 567

Just Hanging Out...

One gets the idea this chiton took a wrong turn somewhere. He's dangling out in space from a little piece of seaweed. I can't help wondering what the chiton word for "oops" is #-o

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by dwashbur
Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:18 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Mystery Nudibranch!
Replies: 8
Views: 1988

Mystery Nudibranch!

With Behrens' book plus Lamb/Hanby, we can usually come up with an ID for the nudis we see, but this guy has us stumped. Using the basic criteria, he should be some kind of dirona, but we can't figure it out. He has a frontal veil, as in this shot: http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb133/dwashbur/m...
by dwashbur
Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:11 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: A New Sculpin For Us?
Replies: 21
Views: 4869

Yeah, we see scalyheads everywhere, and found more than a couple down there. That was why this one caught my eye, he just doesn't fit the profile. I don't go by color at all, because scalyheads are chameleons. But they're one sculpin I can identify consistently, and this guy looks... different. How'...
by dwashbur
Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:53 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: BIG Worm!
Replies: 8
Views: 1758

BIG Worm!

This guy was at least two feet long. We found him on our surface swim in after a night dive at the Monterey breakwater. He was swimming in a sort of spiraling motion, like a corkscrew or something, I don't know how else to describe it. In our lights, he was mesmerising. I can't help wondering if Les...
by dwashbur
Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:00 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Pacific Stomach Wing
Replies: 8
Views: 1420

We saw our first one at Ediz Hook up in Port Angeles, then about a month ago we found two at Redondo. As you describe, when disturbed they just folded up and drifted to the bottom, looking for all the world like just another little snail shell until they decided it was safe to "fly" away a...
by dwashbur
Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:17 pm
Forum: Dive Planning
Topic: Monterey & Environs January 20-23 2008
Replies: 10
Views: 1750

Where are the pics???? Sounds like you guys had a great time down there! We did have a great time. The pix are at my photobucket site, s205.photobucket.com/albums/bb133/dwashbur/ Everything there is sorted by location and date; the Monterey ones are listed as breakwater + date and number as appropr...