Sunday, February 22, 2015

Whytecliff Park 21/02/2015

Heather and I went out for a fun dive at Whytecliff. The visibility was alright, about par for the course for Whytecliff. It was a very busy day there, with OceanQuest and Langley Diving out with quite a few students. Our goal was to do some fish counting for REEF. It was a beautiful day, but cold.

Heather got some great pictures from the dive. At the beginning we came across a large gumboot chiton which you didn't see often at Whytecliff. There were a lot of Cockerell's nudibranchs.


We looked hard, and saw a lot of lewis moonsnail egg casings, but none of the moonsnails themselves.


There was several beautiful yellow margin dorids.


There were also many pretty leopard dorids as well.


Heather got some great pictures of small hermit crabs.


There was a very cool little crab hiding on a rock.


A little sculpin peaked at us from a ledge.


An opalescent nudibranch.


The rocks were covered in one spot by the shiny orange sea squirts.


Lot's of fun!

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