SJI Aug 25

[YellowEye]

Hi
Scubie Doo and I dove the San Juans today on the Banditos. The sites were Breakfast Rock, Hick's Bay, James Island.

Awesome diving!

Here were some of the sights!

[Nwbrewer]

Awesome pics!

[Dusty2]

Great stuff, Lots of critters that we don't get to see down here. Always fun to get into new areas.

[Scubie Doo]

Great job Eric! Also, thank you for pointing out the critters. I asked for (2) critters; a juvenile PS King Crab and Candy Striped Shrimp. Dive 1 produced the shrimp and Dive 2 produced the Crab. Dive 3 produced both, what a great trip! I am working through my photos, I am a little behind from previous dives. However, here are a few of my favorites.


Beautiful PS King Crab. I have several more to share a little later :-)


Large Candy Stripe with a parasite. I was a little bummed to see the parasite, but still a pretty critter.


Very small shrimp in an anemone.


Too bad the shrimp on top wasn't a candy stripe, that would have been cool.


Tiny mosshead in a barnacle. We had fun taking shots of this little critter. Notice the "bug" to the left?

[YellowEye]

Hi Jesse
I'm loving the stripe detail on your candystripe closeup photo! Amazing, it looks like an abstract painting. I thought it was just red/blue/yellow stripes. I didn't know about the orange surrounding some of the blue! I'm going to have to look closer at some of my photos!

Great diving with you!
-Eric

[YellowEye]

By the way, that warbonnet was Jesse's find. Some of our other buddies couldn't believe how small that thing was. The barnacle wasn't even full-sized. I'm surprised my photo turned out because my contact lens was bugging me -- I could barely see it.

[mpenders]

Nice pics, guys! I tell Scoobie that a candy stripe is still on my "need-to-see"/"get-a-picture-of" list...and he finds several a few days later. Looks like it was a nice trip!

[Scubie Doo]

Nice pics, guys! I tell Scoobie that a candy stripe is still on my "need-to-see"/"get-a-picture-of" list...and he finds several a few days later. Looks like it was a nice trip!

Dude! We have about 300 dives together, our "need-to-see"/"get-a-picture-of" list is almost identical.

[olalladiver]

Rediculously cool shots... Wish I had your eyes... I still can't keep my dive console in focus. Just sayin'

[pogiguy05]

AWESOME pics I do love the color of the shrimp

[Jan K]

Great photography guys ! Green with envy

[Scubie Doo]

By the way, that warbonnet was Jesse's find. Some of our other buddies couldn't believe how small that thing was. The barnacle wasn't even full-sized. I'm surprised my photo turned out because my contact lens was bugging me -- I could barely see it.

Hey, you deserve a lot of credit for seeing it when I pointed it out. I was amazed you spotted it so quickly. Beside, you found me my first Candy Stripe Shrimp and PS King Crab

[Dusty2]

Scubie, I love that second shot! I wish you had got a really tight shot of the golden nudie, I love the way their foot looks clear like a gummy bear. That camera does such a great job on the super macro stuff. Of course it's the camera not the guy behind it!

[LCF]

Wow, you two got some AMAZING candy-striped shrimp shots! (I consider myself to have done well if you can find the shrimp in the picture.)

[Scubie Doo]

Rich, this is the best shot I got of the golden nudi. Believe me, I tried :-)



Here are a few more nudi shots for you.





And I posted the rest of the dive photos, just click one of the photos to go to the album.

[YellowEye]

Great shots Jesse!

Here's a couple other fun ones:

Seeing double -- Jesse, do I hear quadruple?

Closeup:

Not a great photo, but shows the colors on the stripes! And eggs(?) inside!

[Scubie Doo]

Whoa doggies. That close up is sweet!!!!!

No quadruple here, I didn't even try with my 100mm macro.

Again, very nice close up

[YellowEye]

(The quadruple refers to Jesse seeing four candies on one anemone!)

Thanks! Here's another one!

[jackieg]

The two of you got incredible shots! Rick and I are jealous of you being underwater with photo talents while all we did was run the boat. Nicely done!!!

[Scubie Doo]

Jackie,

Thanks! I had a great day. Thanks for the great day of diving

Jesse