Dive #456 - Wall Beach - 10 January 2021
Day dive at Wall Beach to see if the lingcod eggs are around yet (they are not). Highlights: a sea star hanging on like a rock climber, 4 brown rockfish, 1 black rockfish (first I've seen on this side of the island), tiger rockfish, 2 GPO friends within a few meters of each other, butterfly crab.
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Greater Moon Jelly (Aurelia labiata)Observer
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Day dive at Wall Beach
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Mottled Star (Evasterias troschelii)Observer
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Mottled Star (Evasterias troschelii)Observer
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Day dive at Wall Beach
Ocean version of the "hang in there baby" poster ;-)
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Yellow-edged Cadlina (Cadlina luteomarginata)Observer
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Gumboot Chiton (Cryptochiton stelleri)Observer
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Kelp Greenling (Hexagrammos decagrammus)Observer
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Noble Dorid (Peltodoris nobilis)Observer
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Ochre Sea Star (Pisaster ochraceus)Observer
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Noble Dorid (Peltodoris nobilis)Observer
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Copper Rockfish (Sebastes caurinus)Observer
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There were 4 brown rockfish and I don't usually seem many, so they all got their photos taken.
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Leather Star (Dermasterias imbricata)Observer
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Lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus)Observer
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Kelp Greenling (Hexagrammos decagrammus)Observer
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Striped Surfperch (Embiotoca lateralis)Observer
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Slime Star (Pteraster tesselatus)Observer
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Brown Rockfish (Sebastes auriculatus)Observer
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Day dive at Wall Beach
There were 4 brown rockfish and I don't usually seem many, so they all got their photos taken.
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Brown Rockfish (Sebastes auriculatus)Observer
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Day dive at Wall Beach
There were 4 brown rockfish and I don't usually seem many, so they all got their photos taken.
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Brown Rockfish (Sebastes auriculatus)Observer
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Day dive at Wall Beach
There were 4 brown rockfish and I don't usually seem many, so they all got their photos taken.
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Quillback Rockfish (Sebastes maliger)Observer
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Tiger Rockfish (Sebastes nigrocinctus)Observer
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Black Rockfish (Sebastes melanops)Observer
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Day dive at Wall Beach
I've never seen a black rockfish on the eastern side of Vancouver Island, so I was suprised to spot this one. It was very shy, and it took me awhile to even get these photos.
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Giant Pacific Octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini)Observer
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Rainbow Star (Orthasterias koehleri)Observer
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Giant Pacific Octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini)Observer
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Butterfly King Crab (Cryptolithodes typicus)Observer
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Sunflower Sea Star (Pycnopodia helianthoides)Observer
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Quillback Rockfish (Sebastes maliger)Observer
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California Boring Sponge (Cliona californiana)Observer
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Rose Sun Star (Crossaster papposus)Observer
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Predaceous Aeolis (Coryphella trophina)Observer
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Rough Keyhole Limpet (Diodora aspera)Observer
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Arctic Green Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis)Observer
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Sea Hedgehog (Halocynthia igaboja)Observer
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Giant Pink Sea Star (Pisaster brevispinus)Observer
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Vermilion Star (Mediaster aequalis)Observer
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Monterey Dorid (Doris montereyensis)Observer
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I'm thinking it's Doris montereyensis, but the mixed size tubercles are throwing me off...
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Mottled Star (Evasterias troschelii)Observer
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Day dive at Wall Beach
Thinking a mottled star, but the colour banding is throwing me off...
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Amphipods (Order Amphipoda)Observer
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Victoria's Crystal Jelly (Aequorea victoria)Observer
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Northern Leopard Dorid (Diaulula odonoghuei)Observer
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White-lined Dirona (Dirona albolineata)Observer
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Day dive at Wall Beach
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