Both Scott and I had new suits to try out (a DUI CF200 for him, a Fusion for me), and both totally rocked! Well, his needs new boots, but other than that, they were great.
There was a negative low tide that had us walking almost to the end of the pier before dropping down, and visibility was still pretty bad, but not as bad a cove 2 earlier in the week. It opened up to maybe 10 feet, but with lots of cottony type stuff floating about.
We saw a tiny pacific spiny lumpsucker (yay!), a sturgeon poacher, a couple of mosshead warbonnets, a teeny tiny sailfin sculpin, a cockerel’s dorid, and a handful of other nudis. And an octo, way back in its den. I only saw a few gunnels, which was surprising, but the bottom was exploding with flounder. Many were simply hanging out on top of the kelp.
I saw one thing I’ve never seen before, which was a baby grunt sculpin. Anyone know what the breeding habits are for grunts? I’ve seen them guard eggs, but do the babies hang out with mom or dad afterwards?
You can see the baby in the lower left hand side, and the adult on the right (sorry for the crappy pic)
and the cottony stuff with the lumpsucker:
Oh yeah, and the baby grunt was kind of cool, I guess... I mean, if you're into that sort of thing. Lumpsucker? Yeah, they're alright too, I suppose.
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