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Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 6:18 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2019 6:53 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 8:30 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 8:44 am
by ScubaJess
The rock of life is looking so much better! Thanks for posting this, I love to see the changes.
I hope we can get together to dive with you on Sunday!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 9:27 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 12:51 pm
by oldsalt
I've read accounts of anemones living for many decades in aquaria - close to a century. 14 years in the wild seems reasonable. Is that a drone shot?
-Curt
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 1:40 pm
by Jan K
Yes Curt, drone shot by a fellow diver who let me use the image.
What I find interesting is that the anemone is still in the same spot for the sixteen years I have started to keep an eye on that rock.
Octopus used to live in the hole under that rock for many years. Not anymore...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2019 6:35 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2019 8:13 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2019 8:02 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 7:28 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2019 9:57 am
by Jan K
Langley Harbor, August 12. I managed to make one dive before the tooth extraction since the DAN recommends:
"Normally, four to six weeks is sufficient time to allow for the risk of infection, provided there has been good healing and gum tissue has begun to fill in the empty socket."
What I found wasn't pretty. Wasting sea stars all over the place, too numerous to count. Most of them Mottled stars. I found only one small Sunflower star, about 3 inches across, none of the larger juveniles I saw here six weeks ago :(
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2019 11:35 am
by Sharkb8
I saw the same thing near the T-Dock in Mulkiteo last weekend. It was disheartening with all the positive signs as of late
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2019 7:15 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2019 11:53 pm
by Jan K
Keystone Jetty, August 18. Another meeting with friends. And again Sunday at low tide. Eric barbecued excellent veggie sausages, ScubaJess cheerful company and Mike, as always, friendly shore support. Although I could not join them in diving, I donned wetsuit and for 58 minutes snorkeled along the jetty and the kelp bed.
I forgot to mention, Happy Birthday Pat !
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 11:40 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 2:24 pm
by Vjw
Congratulations Jan on the new find! That’s so exciting!!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 4:05 pm
by Jan K
Thank you Valerie...
I wish I could get more of the gunnel's body in the picture, but it was not interested to make identification easier by coming out into the open...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2019 7:16 am
by Jan K
August 23rd. Just when I thought I got the currents in Deception Pass figured out with the new NOAA tables, here comes Friday morning. Six of us gather at the Little North Beach, suit up and walk down to the beach for another dive at the DP. Well, today the slack seems to come early, closer to the old tables, at least 30 minutes before the new table prediction. So it looks like we are back to the "good ol' days" , look at the water and go in hoping for good times. And we all had good dive, the currents were not problem, everybody came out with big smiles. Visibility was good and only the weather above could be better, the light rain at times meant that it was rather dark beneath the waves, due to the overcast. But as MAD's Alfred E.Neuman told us so many times: "What, Me Worry? "
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2019 7:23 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2019 7:46 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2019 9:40 am
by oldsalt
I get great pleasure from seeing the things you observe. Thanks for taking the time to process the pixels.
-Curt
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2019 8:29 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2019 2:48 pm
by Jan K
To assist in finding the sea fleas, here is a scenic view of their colony ...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2019 7:35 am
by Jan K