Dive #459 - Madrona Small Wall - 20 January 2021
Beautiful night for a dive, with bright stars above. Fantastic critter spotting as we swam very slowly along the wall. Bay pipefish, several smallish Red Irish Lords, 4 barnacle nudibranchs (!), small cockscombs (one slender and one high, I think), spotted leopard dorids, some beautifully decorated graceful crabs, two mosshead warbonnets, 3 Buffalo sculpins all in the same meter square, 3 painted greenlings of increasingly smaller sizes within a 1/2m square, Thick-horned Nudi, Nanaimo Dorid, super curious and photogenic young orange wolf eel, small PSKC, two GPOs, kelp greenling dad guarding well-developed and mostly hatched eggs, sailfin sculpin, 2 mosshead warbonnets, heart crab, sunflower star, two grunt sculpins on eggs, and gunnel couples in rock holes. As we rounded the corner, a juvenile GPO was strolling along the kelp. It eventually dissapeared into a little crack in the rock/sand. Plainfin midshipmen in the shallows.
Cold but clear and lovely. One of my most recent favourite dives.
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Pez Pipa Californiano (Syngnathus californiensis)Autor
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Dórido de Monterey (Doris montereyensis)Autor
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Mojarra Azul (Embiotoca lateralis)Autor
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Cangrejo de Rocas Rojo (Cancer productus)Autor
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Charrasco Rojo Irlandes (Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus)Autor
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Rocote Cobrizo (Sebastes caurinus)Autor
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Onchidórido de Dos Branquias (Onchidoris bilamellata)Autor
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Dirona de Líneas Blancas (Dirona albolineata)Autor
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Estrella Ocre de Mar (Pisaster ochraceus)Autor
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Onchidórido de Dos Branquias (Onchidoris bilamellata)Autor
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Onchidórido de Dos Branquias (Onchidoris bilamellata)Autor
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Molva de Kelp (Hexagrammos decagrammus)Autor
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Molva Pinta (Oxylebius pictus)Autor
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Note three painted greenlings of progressively smaller sizes. The big one on the right, and two smaller ones around the base of the plumose anemone.
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Rocote Cobrizo (Sebastes caurinus)Autor
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Anguila Lobo (Anarrhichthys ocellatus)Autor
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Pulpo Gigante del Pacífico (Enteroctopus dofleini)Autor
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Molva de Kelp (Hexagrammos decagrammus)Autor
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Molva de Kelp (Hexagrammos decagrammus)Autor
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I've included a photo of the eggs dad was guarding.
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I've included a photo of the dad, who was guarding nearby
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Estrella Girasol (Pycnopodia helianthoides)Autor
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Espinosos de Marea (Familia Pholidae)Autor
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Note the eggs in the background of the den
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Eggs in the background
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Charrasco Rojo Irlandes (Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus)Autor
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Espinosos de Marea (Familia Pholidae)Autor
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Caracol Luna de Lewis (Neverita lewisii)Autor
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Molva de Kelp (Hexagrammos decagrammus)Autor
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Pulpo Rojo del Pacífico (Octopus rubescens)Autor
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Charrasco Espalda Rugosa (Chitonotus pugetensis)Autor
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Sapo de Aleta Lucia (Porichthys notatus)Autor
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Molva (Ophiodon elongatus)Autor
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