The ongoing 'Dond Lumpie and Friends Show ...

[lavachickie]

Wow! We saw so much great stuff last night north of the pier! An hour in 10-20 feet... Are you kidding me?? Awesome.

[Peter Guy]

Bob -- Thank You for getting me out to The Dond for a great dive. One of the things we did was to trade cameras for a minute or two and Bob took one shot of the little wolfie:



I got some of my favorite shots -- gunnels in things:





I got to sit in on Laurel Lefever's NW Critter ID Class last Tuesday (3 more lectures are coming -- if you haven't taken this class AND want to really enhance your OW diving, take the class -- Bubbles Below, Tuesday nights for the next 3 weeks) and he had a picture of a starfish spawning -- I think this is one (if it is not, I'd like to know what it is):



All pictures -- http://www.belowandbeyond.biz/images/dond/index.html

[Dusty2]

Great work guys, Keep em coming!

[cardiver]

Met up with James and Kim this morning at (yawn) 0500 to dive the eel grass. We did a 72 minute dive and only found three lumpies.....

[gutholmj]

Met up with James and Kim this morning at (yawn) 0500 to dive the eel grass. We did a 72 minute dive and only found three lumpies.....

That second one is fantastic Ron. It has an amazing feeling of depth.

My pics on the other hand, well what can I say. Sometimes it just doesn't happen.

[cardiver]

Met up with James and Kim this morning at (yawn) 0500 to dive the eel grass. We did a 72 minute dive and only found three lumpies.....

That second one is fantastic Ron. It has an amazing feeling of depth.

My pics on the other hand, well what can I say. Sometimes it just doesn't happen.

That's pretty nice since we were only 12' deep at the time.......

[Grateful Diver]

Did a nice little swimabout with Kathryn last evening ... 97 minutes total. Weather's starting to murk up the water a bit ... vis was about 20-25 feet. Spent about 20 minutes down in the 60-70 foot range ... looking for the little juvi wolfie I'd been seeing recently ... didn't find him. So we came up shallow and spent the rest of the dive looking for other little things. Found a few ...









... Bob (Grateful Diver)

[Lonestar]

You north of the MaST? We didn't see any lumpies south. A Grunt, a couple of reds and a snailfish but no lumpies :(

And since I always take pictures of what you do.....

[Grateful Diver]

We were south of the boat ramp ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

[Lonestar]

We went in at the boat ramp, did the bottlefield and then worked the eel grass south. Tons of tubesnouts and a several pipe fish (couldn't get a focused shot of one) and I'm sure we shot the same poacher but between 3 of us didn't see a single lumpie.

BTW thanks for the inspiration to head into the eel grass; it really adds to what one sees and makes for a nice way to end a dive!

[Grateful Diver]

That's basically what we did too. There's been a tiny wolfie hanging out over there ... roughly in front of the fishing pier at between 60 and 70 feet ... for about a month. Much smaller than the one on the other side. Didn't find it this time.

Seems to be lots of pipefish over there ... we saw at least 8 or 9 ... as well as probably a half-dozen lumpies. The one pictured above is the largest lumpie I've seen yet this year ... fully grown, I'd say. We found most just below the eel grass ... in the kelp.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

[LCF]

BEAUTIFUL pipefish picture, Bob!

I have got to get out there and do a lumpie dive when we get home.

[Lonestar]

So a third wolfie? A week or two ago we were told that there was one around the stacked tubes but we didn't find it and wrote it off as a gunnel. I have seen some absolutely tiny octos the past couple of weeks but haven't gotten a good photo yet.

[diverden]

This thread is fantastic. Many awesome shots. Thanks!

[H20doctor]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSPHN7xmhVU[/youtube]

[Lonestar]

Awesome! That makes up for not seeing one!!

[cardiver]

Awesome! That makes up for not seeing one!!

Hopefully I'll be seeing a bunch of them in a few hours!

[Lonestar]

Good luck to you Ron!

[cardiver]

I met up with James, Kim and Jeff at 1830 to try out the south side of Redondo. It was a great, 77 minute dive with a lot of lumpies in the 8-12' range.

[Dusty2]

Great shot on the lumpie Ron

[cardiver]

I met up with James, Kim and Jeff at 1830 to try out the south side of Redondo. It was a great, 77 minute dive with a lot of lumpies in the 8-12' range.

Thanks, Rich. One out of thirty aint bad..... :angry:

[gutholmj]

Thanks Ron, Jeff and Kim (onefish) for a great dive. Kim found the one item I've been aching to see, a big, beautiful snailfish. She also found me an awesome big meaty pipefish. I decided to leave the 10-17 fisheye on the camera for the night dive just so I can get better with it and although the results are less than astounding, it's always a fun lens to use.


This was my favorite shot. Less silt and better lighting and it would have been really nice.


No one wants to model for me so I have to do self-portraits.


These things are so adorable.

[gutholmj]

I met up with James, Kim and Jeff at 1830 to try out the south side of Redondo. It was a great, 77 minute dive with a lot of lumpies in the 8-12' range.

Thanks, Rich. One out of thirty aint bad..... :angry:

I was wondering when you posted a hermit crab. Must not have been a good night.

[cardiver]

Great detail on the snail fish, James. Probably the best pic I've seen of one!

[Tom Nic]

Looks like I need to either wake up early or stay up late. Time to plan a dark dive for the 'Dond.