Whidbey Island Critters

[Jan K]

May 13 dive. Couple sea slugs and more color from Deception Pass.

[Jan K]

Yup, more Deception Pass scenery.

[Jan K]

Deception Pass. Final installment of images from May dives - surveying sea stars and watching few slugs eating and mating ...

[ScubaJess]

Sooooo lovely!!!!!

[Jan K]

Thank you ScubaJess

Keystone Jetty. May 16. The visibility is not the greatest due to the annual Spring planktonic soup, which is necessary to provide us with future life, so instead of complaining, I click away pointing the camera at the jetty rocks

[Jan K]

Keystone Jetty, May 16. The Giant Plumose Anemones, so numerous there are partially responsible for the planktonic soup. Releasing their gametes into the water column, adding more stuff into the annual reproductive activity of marine life. Interestingly, only few anemones choose to do the gamete release, most choose probably to go the asexual way.

[Jan K]

Keystone Jetty, May 18. Two days later, no more spawning, but visibility still soso, about ten feet.
The Decorator crab here did not find much to dress up in. Actually it looks like many of us now, in the time of Covid-19 ...

[Jan K]

Another peek under the Driftwood Park drifting wood.

[Jan K]

This was the first time I found Purple Shore Crab , or any crab for that matter, in the Driftwood pond.
This dive, I found four of them ...

[Jan K]

Deception Pass. May 29. Just three divers in water and two fishermen on the beach !
And the sun shining through some thin clouds.

[Jan K]

Deception Pass, May 29. Not very easy to find among all the marine life covering every inch of the area close to the bridge. This Decorated Warbonnet would not venture out of its hiding hole.

[Jan K]

Sunday - slugs from recent dives.






Frequently found on rocks at Keystone. L.cockerelli & the L.sp.