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Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 8:52 pm
by Jan K
After a "Security update" my computer goes bad, crashing applications, not able to save anything
.
Thank god Apple sent out fix and it seems to be working. So after the nightmare I feel festive...
And thanks for comments. Yes, I do keep an eye on all the eggs which now seem to be everywhere.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:05 am
by Tom Nic
Hmmm... and here I thought Apples never crashed!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 2:09 pm
by Jan K
The iMac working again. But the weather is just too beautiful to be sitting
in front of a computer too long. DIVING, DIVING, DIVING
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:21 pm
by Jan K
I don't know what is the attraction, but most of the Gumboot chitons
love the blocks on the rope trail...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:38 am
by Tom Nic
Jan K wrote:I don't know what is the attraction, but most of the Gumboot chitons love the blocks on the rope trail...
Lime in the concrete, perhaps?
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:34 pm
by Jan K
Tom Nic wrote:Jan K wrote:I don't know what is the attraction, but most of the Gumboot chitons love the blocks on the rope trail...
Lime in the concrete, perhaps?
Good idea Tom, It might be the chiton Drive-through !
And more eggs:
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 8:50 am
by LCF
Gorgeous photo of the female, Jan! They are so skittish, and so hard to shoot.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 1:44 pm
by RoxnDox
Beautiful photos (as always)... Hard to guess the scale, how big are those barnacles?
Jim
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:58 pm
by Jan K
Thanks.
The opening is about inch and half across. The Giant barnacles do grow up to five they say...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 5:51 pm
by RoxnDox
Jan K wrote:Thanks.
The opening is about inch and half across. The Giant barnacles do grow up to five they say...
That would be... impressive.
Thanks
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 6:00 pm
by Jan K
And since we are talking eggs, here are the multitudes covering lots of stuff at Keystone.
Snails.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 7:19 pm
by Dusty2
Wow! Predators and cannibals too. Nice little buggers. The ocean is an eat and be eaten world from the smallest to the largest of critters. Complex and yet very basic but always fascinating. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge with us.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 5:36 am
by Jan K
Thanks Dusty.
Couple of sculpin portraits from Keystone.
Or: My horns are prettier than yours ...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 10:17 pm
by Jan K
Another critter added to my list today
First the common relative :
and the one I think is the :
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:35 am
by LCF
Cool, unusual find, Jan!
Going back to the cabezon, I find it difficult to believe that they only reach 23 lbs. I'm quite sure a couple of the ones which have hit me at Edmonds were MUCH bigger than that!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:54 pm
by Jan K
LCF wrote:Cool, unusual find, Jan!
Going back to the cabezon, I find it difficult to believe that they only reach 23 lbs. I'm quite sure a couple of the ones which have hit me at Edmonds were MUCH bigger than that!
Largest recorded Cabezon in California, according to their Department of Fish & Game internet site was 25 pounds. Since the Edmonds Cabezon are not fished, their weight is probably one for the record books
Also I am having second thought in the Spotted Swimming anemone. Although it is different from the usual common Swimming Anemone, today I found another white together with orange/tan one :(
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:44 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:45 am
by Tom Nic
LOVE the picture of the blue mussels - wonderful composition!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 6:54 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:40 pm
by LCF
Jan, have I told you recently that I love you? Where else in the WORLD can you see these kinds of pictures and learn this kind of stuff . . . day after day after day.
I hadn't realized that ling cod lived such short lives. With the size of some of the "truck bumper" lings at Edmonds, I had sort of assumed that they had very long lives, like rockfish. Learn something every day!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 9:08 pm
by Jan K
I was told that Deception Pass North Beach will be open on March 1st. Even the
Washington State Park website says March 1. To my surprise,
there were TWO gates locked and now they tell me it will be closed till April 1st.
So I had to backtrack to Keystone instead. Why did I get up at five in the morning for ?
I was surprised to find Puget Sound King crab of that size at Keystone,
most of the time I see only the bright orange juveniles there.
and some more common tunicates. I did not post the Pacific White Crust before:
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 10:19 pm
by LCF
Wow, that's a really unusually colored Stimson's! I love them because they are simply so pretty.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:21 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:11 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 10:22 am
by Tom Nic