Dive #525 - Maple Bay - 22 December 2021
Brilliant night dive at Maple Bay tonight! Red octos galore (10+) - at one point I was taking a photo of one, knocked a bottle, and another one jetted out in front of me! Other highlights include a padded sculpin, J getting scared out of her wits by a dead lion's mane jelly that suddenly appeared in her face out of the darkness, cockscombs, gunnels, cute buried/digging red rock crabs, batwing sea slugs, sparkling shrimp, pregnant red rocks and graceful crabs, and a friendly pacific cod. And I finally saw a grunt sculpin actually in a giant acorn barnacle shell! Another highlight came in the last 10 minutes in the sand on the left side of the pier, where we found 5 showy snailfish - including one out swimming! They're pretty rare up our way, so it was nice to find them and get J excited about something I found (usually it's the opposite!)
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Red Rock Crab (Cancer productus)Observer
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East Pacific Red Octopus (Octopus rubescens)Observer
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Pygmy Poacher (Odontopyxis trispinosa)Observer
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Giant Nudibranch (Dendronotus iris)Observer
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East Pacific Red Octopus (Octopus rubescens)Observer
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Padded Sculpin (Artedius fenestralis)Observer
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East Pacific Red Octopus (Octopus rubescens)Observer
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Northern Spearnose Poacher (Agonopsis vulsa)Observer
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East Pacific Red Octopus (Octopus rubescens)Observer
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High Cockscomb (Anoplarchus purpurescens)Observer
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East Pacific Red Octopus (Octopus rubescens)Observer
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Crescent Gunnel (Pholis laeta)Observer
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Plainfin Midshipman (Porichthys notatus)Observer
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Pacific Cod (Gadus macrocephalus)Observer
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East Pacific Red Octopus (Octopus rubescens)Observer
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Sailfin Sculpin (Nautichthys oculofasciatus)Observer
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Red Rock Crab (Cancer productus)Observer
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Sandy Shore Proboscis-Worms (Genus Cerebratulus)Observer
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Kelp Pipefish (Syngnathus californiensis)Observer
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Deep Blade Shrimp (Spirontocaris prionota)Observer
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Sunflower Sea Star (Pycnopodia helianthoides)Observer
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Pacific Batwing Seaslug (Gastropteron pacificum)Observer
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Sailfin Sculpin (Nautichthys oculofasciatus)Observer
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Yellow-edged Cadlina (Cadlina luteomarginata)Observer
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Grunt Sculpin (Rhamphocottus richardsonii)Observer
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Grunt Sculpin (Rhamphocottus richardsonii)Observer
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Sparkling Shrimp (Pandalus lucidirimicolus)Observer
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Smoothhead Sculpin (Artedius lateralis)Observer
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Giant Acorn Barnacle (Balanus nubilus)Observer
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Kelp Surfperch (Brachyistius frenatus)Observer
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Deep Blade Shrimp (Spirontocaris prionota)Observer
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Orange Sea Cucumber (Cucumaria miniata)Observer
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Leather Star (Dermasterias imbricata)Observer
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Leather Star (Dermasterias imbricata)Observer
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Scaled Crab (Placetron wosnessenskii)Observer
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Giant Pink Sea Star (Pisaster brevispinus)Observer
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Painted Greenling (Oxylebius pictus)Observer
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Grunt Sculpin (Rhamphocottus richardsonii)Observer
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Smoothhead Sculpin (Artedius lateralis)Observer
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Rhinoceros Crab (Rhinolithodes wosnessenskii)Observer
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Dock Shrimp (Pandalus danae)Observer
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Pacific Lion's Mane Jelly (Cyanea ferruginea)Observer
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Greater Moon Jelly (Aurelia labiata)Observer
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Saddleback Gunnel (Pholis ornata)Observer
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Red Rock Crab (Cancer productus)Observer
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Canadian Comb Jelly (Bolinopsis microptera)Observer
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Red Rock Crab (Cancer productus)Observer
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Kelp Pipefish (Syngnathus californiensis)Observer
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East Pacific Red Octopus (Octopus rubescens)Observer
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Showy Snailfish (Liparis pulchellus)Observer
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Showy Snailfish (Liparis pulchellus)Observer
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Showy Snailfish (Liparis pulchellus)Observer
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Graceful Rock Crab (Metacarcinus gracilis)Observer
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Showy Snailfish (Liparis pulchellus)Observer
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Graceful Rock Crab (Metacarcinus gracilis)Observer
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Showy Snailfish (Liparis pulchellus)Observer
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Starry Flounder (Platichthys stellatus)Observer
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Pacific Staghorn Sculpin (Leptocottus armatus)Observer
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Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)Observer
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Starry Flounder (Platichthys stellatus)Observer
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