Catalina, June 26, 2009

I have posted video before of the Scythe Butterfly Fish but yesterdays encounter was too good to leave off of my blog. There were three dancing back and forth.

Catalina, June 2009

Thanks to my buddy Ruth and her great eyes we both got to take pictures and video of this wonderful Nudibranch.

Yukon 6-21-09

This Decorator Crab was inside a square area on the Yukon

The Yukon wreck in San Diego June 21, 2009

I was amazed at the shear size of this wreck. It sits in 105 feet of water. I was just a little cold in the 52 degree water after 45 minutes of dive and saftey stop time.

Catalina, June 2009

Here is Ruth posing the Coffee Bean Cowry she found.

Catalina, June 2009

Abalone gobble up Kelp leaves

Catalina, June 2009

These Hermissenda crassicornis Nudibranches were literally all over the site of this dive, Eagle Reef Catalina. Since seeing them for the first time, I have now found them in San Diego on the wreck of the Rubby E, and Yukon.

Wreck diving in June

My buddy Ruth found these mating Polyclad flatworms on the wreck LCM3 out of the LA harbor. We had three wonderful dives on the Wreck Avalon, LCM3 and at a site called Arches off of Palas Verdes
I can never resist the colony anemones or Corynactis, these were especially graceful as well as a beautiful color.