Brilliant night dive at Maple Bay tonight! Red octos galore (10+) - at one point I was taking a photo of one, knocked a bottle, and another one jetted out in front of me! Other highlights include a padded sculpin, J getting scared out of her wits by a dead lion's mane jelly that suddenly appeared in her face out of the darkness, cockscombs, gunnels, cute buried/digging red rock crabs, batwing sea slugs, sparkling shrimp, pregnant red rocks and graceful crabs, and a friendly pacific cod. And I finally saw a grunt sculpin actually in a giant acorn barnacle shell! Another highlight came in the last 10 minutes in the sand on the left side of the pier, where we found 5 showy snailfish - including one out swimming! They're pretty rare up our way, so it was nice to find them and get J excited about something I found (usually it's the opposite!)
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
Night dive at Maple Bay
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