Elephant Wall and Cockerell's Dorid Appearance

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KeithBoll
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Elephant Wall and Cockerell's Dorid Appearance

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Dale and I returned to Flagpole and Elephant Wall today after a one month absence from the Hood. Viz was a bit milky on top - due to silt from the rain run off of this past week. Below 40 feet - the view cleared up quite a bit! At Flagpole, there are now two Octos on eggs. One batch of eggs looks like they are about ready to hatch! The other cluster of eggs is much newer.

At Elephant Wall - our resident Warbonnet was out further than usual and made for some nice poses. Between 70 and 90 feet - there are quite a few Wolf Eels in residence, including a rather large Wolf Eel pair. Also - Dale spotted the first of this season's Cockerell's Dorids. We have not seen any CD's for over three months - and then we only had one sighting. Here's hoping for more! I used my 60mm macro lens with the 2x wet lens diopter for the Cockerell's Dorid shots.
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Fantastic pics!!! Glad to hear the CDs are back! :) also awesome about the octos on eggs! What a great GPO season we are having!
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Awesome pics Keith.
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Cool!
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love the cd's!!
cool warbonnet!
glad to hear the low o2 effects didn't seem to be too bad.
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Great shots, good to see the cd back
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