Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Sunday November 4

Water Temperature:  50 F
Visibility:  Approximately 15 feet (visibility was worse on the reef than in the shallows)

The schools of fish disappeared as quickly as they had shown up.  The last school left was of pile perch with copper and puget sound rock fish wedged in various areas of the reef with kelp and painted greenlings along the rock.  Nudibranchs so abundant over the past few weeks were scant with only a single clown nudibranch, a white multicolored dendronotid, and frosted nudibranchs making an appearance.  The wolf eel was still on the South side of the reef with 2 giant pacific octopus wedged into their holes.



Giant pacific octopus keeping watch over the reef.











White dendronotid (white variant) at the Southeast corner of the reef











Roughpatch shrimp.  One of the many scattered around the reef.









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