Northwest Nudibranchs

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:54 pm

Even better! By the way, I love your octo photos at Redondo.
Jeanna

cardiver · Post by **cardiver** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:37 pm

Here's a red and a gpo together at 3tn. I can't tell if they love each other or hate each other........ I guess the difference is insignificant.

Dusty2 · Post by **Dusty2** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:12 pm

dphershman wrote:I was diving at keystone jetty on Saturday morning and spied this 'Three Lined Nudibranch" Flabellina trilineata

I was happily shooting away when this scalyback sculpin decided to sit on my subject-- wouldn't get off either!
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He was just protecting his buddy from that big black fish!

Hey Dan We are doing redondo tomarrow around 1PM

Grateful Diver · Post by **Grateful Diver** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:13 pm

Here's a couple I took at Lobster Shop Wall yesterday ...

Golden Dirona

White-Lined Dirona

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

cardiver · Post by **cardiver** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:38 pm

Are you still using the strobe, Bob? I think I'm going to buy the Ikelite AF35 as a x mas present to myself.......

Grateful Diver · Post by **Grateful Diver** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:15 am

I used the strobe on that dive, Ron ... I'm still playing with settings. Sometimes it seems to overexpose the shot (almost did with the white-lined dirona above, but I was able to "fix" it) ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:05 pm

I didn't know you added a strobe. What strobe did you decide on?

Jeanna

Grateful Diver · Post by **Grateful Diver** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:22 am

Edge wrote:I didn't know you added a strobe. What strobe did you decide on?

Jeanna

I didn't really decide on a strobe ... someone gave it to me ...

It's a Sea & Sea YS-25 Auto ... a small strobe that slaves off the camera's flash. Works well to reduce backscatter, but is just powerful enough to mess you up sometimes if you put it on the wrong setting. I'm still learning how to use it.

You can see it somewhat in this pic ...

BTW, Jeanna ... I love your avatar. Did you take that at the oil dock?

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

dwashbur · Post by **dwashbur** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:12 pm

Here's a pair of Armina californica that appear to be in a mellow mood, getting ready to - uh - well...mud wrestle, yeah, that's it! Found at Les Davis today in about 25 fsw.

Dusty2 · Post by **Dusty2** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:06 pm

Just about the time you get a little bored with the same small nudies mother nature throws you a couple like this!

Dusty2 · Post by **Dusty2** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:35 pm

dwashbur wrote:Where at Redondo? We've been wanting to see one of those for about 2 years now...

We did a dive at KVI tower today and I spotted several

enchantmentdivi · Post by **enchantmentdivi** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 3:16 pm

Not the best picture in the world, but when I saw this little guy's location, it cracked me up. If you can name the dive site, I have a prize for you. Hehehe.

cardiver · Post by **cardiver** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 3:23 pm

enchantmentdivi wrote:Not the best picture in the world, but when I saw this little guy's location, it cracked me up. If you can name the dive site, I have a prize for you. Hehehe.

3TN! Where's my prize? $\:D/$

enchantmentdivi · Post by **enchantmentdivi** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 8:28 pm

cardiver wrote:3TN! Where's my prize? $\:D/$

DING DING DING--you win!

Your prize is a bucket of approximately 40 golf balls that I collected on a Rockaway Beach dive with the intention of relocating them to the "golf ball boat" at 3TN.

Dusty2 · Post by **Dusty2** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 8:53 pm

Nice shot Jenn! Love these big guys. Never seen one at TTN though

Dusty2 · Post by **Dusty2** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:32 pm

Here are some more lovelies from KVI
A nice leopard nudibranch

A nice white line dirona

an opalesent nudibranch

4 Shaggy mouses (mice?) and whats left of one poor brooding anemone (the striped thing in the middle)

One more shaggy. I just love this color variant and the way the strobe causes them to light up!

dphershman · Post by **dphershman** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:49 pm

This seems to be a great season for finding Red Dendronotids, Dendronotus rufus . I've been spotting them frequently at Redondo, Cove 2 and Edmonds lately. here's one from Edmonds last weekend.

I've been busy this fall working on my photos and putting together a 2009 calendar of local Nudibranchs, its now available through Lulu.com. $\:D/$ If your a nudi nut you can check it out at this link:

http://www.lulu.com/content/4322847

Dusty2 · Post by **Dusty2** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 6:30 pm

Nice work Dan, Hope it turns a profit.

Nwbrewer · Post by **Nwbrewer** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:57 am

Ok, what's this one, found about 40fsw at Mukilteo T-dock the other day. Cool looking, but I only got 1 semi decent picture.

Sounder · Post by **Sounder** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 9:04 am

Yellow margin dorid?

I dunno.

dwashbur · Post by **dwashbur** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 9:28 am

The red tips on the rhinophores and the shape of the bumps on him and all that suggest a Nanaimo.

dphershman · Post by **dphershman** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 7:15 pm

this past week I've seen quite a few Flabellina verrucosa, both at Cove 2 on Tuesday night and today at Titlow. These were both at Titlow today. Tiny little fellows, they were close to the pilings.

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Dusty2 · Post by **Dusty2** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:07 pm

Nwbrewer wrote:Ok, what's this one, found about fews at Mukilteo T-dock the other day. Cool looking, but I only got 1 semi decent picture.
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Yep Naniamo for sure

Nice work on that second one Dan. I like the blue luminescence

Dusty2 · Post by **Dusty2** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:38 pm

A couple for this last week at PT
Sudden stop?

A unicorn? Hmmm should this photo be X rated?

A couple of pretty opalesent shots

Nice rack on that white tail.... Opps! wrong forum

Scott G · Post by **Scott G** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 7:04 pm

Dusty, I saw the "sudden stop" behavior quite a few times on one dive with those nudi's... Do you know what that is?

It was funny looking...

pardon my white balance.

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