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.
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
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.
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
I've included a photo of the eggs dad was guarding.
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
I've included a photo of the dad, who was guarding nearby
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Note the eggs in the background of the den
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Eggs in the background
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
Night dive at Madrona Small Wall
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