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Really cool experience seeing this Red Abalone Spawn in the wild. I went to check on an abalone I often see, but when I peered down in the crack I realized there were now two of them. This one (pictured) had crawled out from deep around a corner in the back of the hole and positioned itself front and center at the entrance of the crevice. Within three seconds of me seeing the abalone, it began releasing eggs into the water. Im not sure if it was also doing this before I showed up. I snapped a couple photos- only one of which was decently in focus because I turned off my focusing light as to not scare the abalone. I watched it for about a minute an a half until it stopped and began reseeding way back into the crevice. When I came back ten minutes later, only one abalone was left, the one spawning had crawled back deep in the hole and around the corner where it was no longer visible.