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Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2020 10:16 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 8:35 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2020 11:03 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2020 3:18 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2020 9:25 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2020 9:03 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2020 10:20 am
by oldsalt
Jan: We normally stop at the park at Freeland to look out at Holmes Harbor when we visit the Island. Memories of being anchored there include beautiful calm evenings and some anxious windy nights. When we saw the mast of Family Affair, it marked our greatest fear. The characteristics that made it an anchorage, flat, shallow, muddy, bottom, deterred my diving there. Your photos show me I was wrong. You keep finding novel things in unlikely places. Thanks, Curt
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2020 10:49 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 8:07 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2020 8:20 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2020 9:25 am
by Jan K
Keystone Jetty, December 20, 2020. Dredging continues. I took advantage of the act, that work on the site stops for the weekend. Although the currents were not favorable, I needed to test my new MiniFlash. I was able to dive only the shallower part of the jetty, the current was just too strong elsewhere. Visibility was silty 12 feet, heavy overcast. School of Striped seaperch, couple Lingcods, few rockfish. Lots of Northern kelp crabs. Nothing left of Bull kelp, new Japanese wireweed coming up. I just found on line the Dredging and Disposal Proposal from February 2020 which contains lot of information about the project. For those of us who dive Keystone and are interested, I dug some of the info and included it in following 12 panels. Probably boring to people who don't dive here.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2020 9:15 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2020 3:43 pm
by Jan K
Merry Christmas !
Hope to see many of you next year at the Pass !
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2020 8:13 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 8:53 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 10:11 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 4:29 pm
by Dominick Gheesling
Seriously,
I look forward to these posts daily!
Love all of the fauna identification!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 9:01 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 9:30 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 4:26 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2021 7:11 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 10:31 am
by Jan K
December 31st. For the last dive of 2020 I visit the Keystone Jetty, which is still being affected by the dredging of the ferry landing. Because the work continues even on this day before the New Year Eve celebrations begin, This required the long swim from the old wharf to the jetty and back. Which means limited time on the jetty. Because of the overcast and the silt in water, my wide angle attempts to capture the scene there were not too successful. I did not find any Lingcod nests, nor any large females ready to lay their eggs, just few of the smaller Lingcod males. Not large schools of rockfish, but the limited visibility might be the reason. I did see plenty of Striped surfperch. Many, many Northern Kelp crabs. And the annual gathering of Wrinkled dogwinkle snails is in full swing, starting to lay eggs which soon will cover the places they occupy now. After I finished my dive, the Queen of Keystone Pat arrived to visit her realm, testing her new drysuit which finally arrived. It was good to see my friends, Mike as always, helping Pat and providing good conversation partner to me.
The break in weather was welcomed, since the beginning of the new year looks like will be rainy and very windy. I hope that the dredging will end soon and the impact will be minimal.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 9:31 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 11:14 am
by Jan K
The new paper on Sea Star Wasting Syndrome was published today :
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/0 ... 9iEXBbh2ZA
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 7:11 pm
by Jan K
I can't compete with the national news about the coup attempt in the nation's Capitol.
But I can share good news from Keystone, the dredging machinery is gone !
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