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Halfway Reef, last weekend





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Posted by Merry on May 19, 2021 at 11:31:46:

Phil and I expected yuck vis and plenty of surge, but NO! Twenty-five feet vis at the bottom with a gentle, current-driven parade of thousands of pyrosomes. Of course, neither of us brought a WA lens.

Caprellid amphipod on a pyrosome.



Pyrosoma atlanticum, a colonial tunicate


A lone squid egg


Antiopella barbarensis



Flatworm, Pseudoceros luteus


Phil's "potato" sponge - yet undescribed, but an investigator is working on it.


Cuthona divae laying eggs


Tritonia festiva


Olive rockfish, Sebastes serranoides


Kellet's whelk laying eggs


Metridium sp.


Ancula gibbosa


Polycera atra laying eggs


Henricia sp.


Hermissenda opalescens preying on nudibranch eggs - an explosion of them right now.


Triopha catalinae





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