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Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:36 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 10:41 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 8:40 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2017 10:47 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2017 11:54 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 8:34 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 5:10 pm
by oldsalt
Ghost shrimp are a preferred food for gray whales. The state stopped issuing commercial fishing licenses to encourage the whales to keep feeding. It might be fun to dive the same spot after the whales have made their first pass through in the spring to see how the bottom looks then.
-Curt
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 7:35 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2017 7:25 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2017 9:03 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2017 1:18 pm
by Jan K
Hooded aka Lion nudibranchs. Couple years ago in December, there were hundred of them here, this time I found only two little ones hunting on eel grass patch .
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 9:07 am
by Jan K
First dive of 2018. Keystone Jetty. Visibility about ten silty feet. Even the critters are covered with silt.
Not exactly what I was hoping for after two week absence from diving. :(
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2018 8:35 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2018 4:42 pm
by Vjw
I like your pictures with the juxtaposition of dry and wet (real) octopus. Thank you!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2018 5:28 pm
by Tom Nic
Just gorgeous!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 6:08 pm
by Jan K
Thank you Tom, Vjw ...
Lagoon Point - Creatures of the muck. At times I wonder how they find food in such "yukky" environment...
Quote from Jurassic Park:
"If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us is that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but life, finds the way."
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 4:52 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2018 7:49 pm
by Vjw
This is wonderful news!!!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 12:36 pm
by oldsalt
When I look at the pictures of the marvelous variety of seastars, I am reminded of a conversation I had with another diver. We were both from Puget Sound and were diving in Fiji. He made the comment that he didn't dive in Puget Sound, because "There is nothing to see there." I mentioned the things we have that aren't common in the tropics, such as seastars, he responded, "They aren't worth looking at." Joanie Mitchell's lyric comes to mind, "You don't know what you've got 'till it's gone." Thank's for spreading your sense of wonder at the commonplace in the natural world.
-Curt
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 3:50 pm
by Jan K
Curt, as the saying goes : " Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"...
Couple more from Langley dive. Male Northern Kelp Crab protecting his female from the nosy diver with camera and Buffalo sculpin trying to blend in with end of sunken piling along with Mottled star, hiding from the same pesky divers
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 9:37 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 4:22 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 6:25 pm
by Vjw
Truly amazing colors!!!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 8:34 am
by Jan K
It has been a while since I came across "built as a tank" critter - adult Puget Sound King Crab.
It is not common in the waters around Whidbey Island.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 4:24 pm
by Jan K