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Welcome of the Emerald Diving Photo Gallery!

5.17.09 Back to the San Juans on a glorious spring day! Although my equipment did not fully cooperate on this day, the visibility was good - over 30 feet at times.We targeted the NW San Juans and had good dives at Sentinal and Stuart Islands. We then hit Jones Island on the way home for a less than spectacular dive. Thick growths of sponges and healthy nudibranch populations highlighted the dives in this current intensive area.

Urticina Anemone

Plumose Anemone

Giant Pacific Octopus

Blue Rockfish

Canary Rockfish

Rosy Rockfish

Cabezon

Sea Lemon Nudibranch

Buffalo Sculpin

Orange Finger Sponge

Stellar Sealion

Great Northern Kelp

Sea Nettle Jellyfish

Puget Sound King Crab

Sea Nettle

Yellowtail Rockfish

Stellar Sealion

7.17.09 Neah Bay trips are always good for at least a few additions to the photo gallery, and this trip was no exception. Octopus shots were of a 5' specimen I encountered on the east side of Stellar Rock. Note the sea nettle photos. Sea nettles have gone from almost non-existent in the Neah Bay area to almost a nuisance as their population have grown by orders of magnitude. Regardless, they are beautiful animals. The next Neah Bay trip is at the end of August.

Canary Rockfish

Aggregated-Vase Sponge

Tiger Rockfish

China Rockfish

Rosy Rockfish

San Diego Nudibranch

Urticina Anemone

Red Gorgonian

Yellowtail Rockfish

Undetermined Sculpin

Ten Tentacled Anemone

Lion Nudibranch

Purple-Olive Snail

Pacific Sanddab

Red-eye Jelly

Stellar Sealion

Black Rockfish

Vermilion Seastar

Pink Hydrocoral

Criss-cross Jelly

8.28.09 Intense fog severely limited our diving adventures during our August trip this year, however we did manage to get some good diving in. Although I scootered several dive sites without a camera, I took the camera on 6 dives. My best dives were at Third Beach Pinnacle, which is where most of the rockfish pictures were taken. The other photogenic dive was at Sekiu Jetty - a truly unique, relaxing, and beautiful dive making the drive to the Cape Flattery area well worth it. My most unusual encounter during this trip eluded my camera. While at Third Beach Pinnacle on my last dive, a halibut approximately 4' long swam by, but only allowed me to close to within 10 feet before bolting.

Northern Kelp Crab

Blackeye Hermit

Plainfin Midshipmen

Hudsons Dorid

Red Flabellina

Red Octopus

Longfin Sculpin

Stubby Squid

10.25.09 Diving time has come at a premium over the last few months, but I have managed to get a some Three Tree night dives in along the way, and even a San Juan trip with Rob, Alan, Anthony, and Jeff in September in Alan's boat. Although the wind prevented us from reaching our intended target in the San Juans, we did get some good diving in. The longfin sculpin, Hudson's dorid, and red flabellina photos were taken on that trip. The rest of these photos were taken at Three Tree Point, which continues to be a favorite night dive location of mine even after 270 dives.

Kelp Perch

Sunflower Star

Stubby Squid

Cresent Gunnel

Penpoint Gunnel

Graceful Crab

Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker

Dock Shrimp

Bay Pipefish

11.15.09 Highlights from my Three Tree Point dives this month. The stubby squid have shown up in decent numbers this year - I have seen three stubbies on several dives. The Pacific spiny lumpsuckers are harder to come by this year - I have only found two "nickel" sized lumpies this month. I did manage to get one dive on the south side of the point on an evening when the wind was strong out of the north. Although this side is less prolific, I found three bay pipefish in the small eel-grass patches inthe shallows.

Puget Sound King Crab

Scale Crab

Candystripe Shrimp

Feather Corlalline Algae

Crimson Anemone

Red Irish Lord

Mosshead Warbonnet

Swimming Scallop

11.27.09 We had a wonderful day of diving on the Friday after Thanksgiving Day. The weather was more like June than November. We hit south Lopez Island and Sares Head, then scampered back through Deception Pass to Cornet Bay just before dark. Vis was good and the diving was excellent. I shot video at Long Island, but took the SLR with me on my dives at Davidson Rocks and Sares Head. Vis was 35 feet at Long Island and Davidson, and a respectable 20 feet at times are Sares Head.

Northern Kelp Crab

Red Irish Lord

Dock Shrimp

Decorated Warbonnet

12.12.09 It was a cold, December day that barely got above freezing, but I managed to get out for a boat dive at China Wall on the west side of Blakely Rock. I was rewarded with good visibility underwater (30 feet) and a photo opportunity with a decorated warbonnet in an abandoned giant acorn barnacle. The wind kept me from a second dive, but this dive made teh outting worthwhile.

Northern Kelp Crab

Stubby Squid

Saddleback Gunnel

Shaggy Mouse Nudibranch

Giant Seaspider

Slender Sole

Horned Shrimp

Red Irish Lord

Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker

Sunflower Star

Plumose Anemone

Swimming Anemone

Lingcod

01.19.10 Pics from two night dives at Three Tree Point and a couple of boat dives at KVI Tower. Note the egg mass to the right of the Red Irish Lord. KVI is also good bet for finding the shaggy mouse nudibranch. I couldn't resist posting the brilliant colors around the eyes of the slender sole, found at 100 fsw at Three Tree Point. Three Tree Point also continues to produce a healthy population of Pacific spiny lumpsukcers and stubby squid.