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Posted by scottfiji on May 31, 2007 at 11:12:36:


I had two nice dives at Vets last night with Andy and Lee

total bottom time: 102 minutes

max depth: 96ft

vis: poor in shallows due to red tide (but still good enough for some photos), better past 55ft (10-12ft)

surf: fairly low, with wind chop. entry/exit fairly easy

temp: 62 in shallows, 52 at depth, gradual thermocline

Highlights of the dives include a baby snake eel, and skeleton shrimp.

Other sightings include hermissenda, black dorid, rock crabs, lots of different shrimp species, pacific staghorn sculpin, a tiny baby pipefish, a couple fringehead, poachers, roughback sculpin, tons of octopus, lots of flatfish, baby thornback ray, small lizardfish, round stingray, lots of baby rockfish & small perch, and a few cusk eels. No eelpouts :(

enjoy the photos, Scott

Roughback sculpin, straight on

Mating shrimp?

small halibut

the famous "brown shrimp"

cool octo, straight on

3 skeleton shrimp

more skeleton shrimp

dancing skeleton shrimp

octo on the prowl

fringehead

famous "red shrimp", found deeper

baby rockfish, give me a kiss

hermissenda

black dorid

unknown shrimp, strange body. This was my first time finding this species

Baby snake eel. Unlike the adults, he didn't retract back into his hole.

target shrimp





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