Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Saturday October 21, 2012

Water Temperature:  52 F
Visibility:  20 feet in the shallows and down to 15 feet on the reef

3 schools of tubesnout near the reef
1 school of pile perch (single perch previous week)
1 school of kelp perch
Copper rockfish, brown rockfish, kelp greenling
Buffalo sculpin
Painted greenlings
The giant pacific octopus we saw last week was gone.
Nudibranch's:  Few alabaster nudibranch's (last week they covered the sand above the reef), yellow rimmed nudibranch, clown nudibranchs from last week were gone,



 Yellow Rimmed Nudibranch.  The only one I found today on the reef.  The alabaster nudibranchs that covered the sandy area above the reef last week disappeared.







Northern Sun Star as seen from the point of view of a shrimp. 

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