Northwest Dive Club

dsteding wrote:

Jan K wrote: There is also a wall off Camano Island southern part..

Where is the wall off of Camano?

from the Whidbey Critters post from last December :

Gedney Island barges,
Gedney Island artificial reef, both are very close to Everett.
There is also a wall off Camano Island southern part..

We revisited another Glacial erratic. Last year we found numerous Buffalo and Great sculpins on it, so we named it " The Sculpin Rock". And since it is egg laying season, we were looking forward to find them there on guard duty. And we were not disappointed. They were all over the rock...H...

Thank you all for kind words, if you are Point & Shoot camera guy, slugs are our friends
or anything else which doesn't run away too fast...

Common slug this time of year....

Thank you. Great link about invasive species I encountered last year in Canada.

I hope someday I get a critter named after me, but definitely not via the "Bobbit" route. I wonder if he even knows he's been so honored. It's not in honor of him, it's in honor of HER scissors. :notworthy: And it only refers to a few large species that stand up with their huge jaws exten...

Happy Valentine

Update,... I got my quote back from the above mentioned transport service. Anybody care to guess what they want to take a 110' vessel from Florida to Lapaz Mexico??? BTW,... its only about a 2300is mile trip( roughly ) estimated to take 2 weeks.... Ill tell ya cause your never gonna guess.....$126,...

Happy Birthday Pete! Hope you are doing what you like, today and always

Happy Birthday Bob, keep up the great work - I for one, I am very grateful for your contributions

Update,... The search for the perfect vessel goes on. I am stunned at how people can put beautiful boats up for sale and let them sit there and rot for years unattended.... We have located a prime vessel on the east coast. However there is that near six figure dollar mark attached to get her to Sea...

Plenty of Barnacle and Bryozoan eating slugs in Whidbey waters right now.

As I said, not sure, just that I had some encounters with similar looking slugs across from your dive site here on Whidbey.
Here is a double post from Whidbey Critters:

Dusty, the two first slugs look little bit like the white variant of Barnacle Eating Dorid ( Onchidoris bilamellata). Just my guess since I saw one couple days ago..

At first I thought I found a new color variation of Elysia. Usually I see them green. My friend Dave Behrens, expert on nudibranchs told me that it is just a hungry guy, missing chloroplasts in his diet... Learning something new. Again. And again :book: http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m147/Honza-...

Dusty goes international - don't stop now
Congratulations.

Congratulations Pete, well deserved honor !

Happy Birthday and wishing you the best for years to come !

Since the toothy Lingcod disappeared somewhere in the cyberspace - here is repost. and one more

I am pretty sure the nudies are the darker variant of Nanaimo Dorids ( Acanthodoris nanaimoensis), Nice photos BTW

I just couldn't resist

As long we are dealing with crabs, here are two shady characters from Holmes Harbor ...

Well, Dusty, isn't this a coincidence? I just sighted my first hairy-spiny crab and you find its baby
Great shot.

And many more. :occasion5: :smt038