I went to look for the mated couple of froggies but I got distracted on the way to the location and decided to check on the mating F. marcussorum. They are still there and pretty busy laying pink eggs all around. I want to watch those eggs grow. Once in nudi world I decided to look for the froggie I saw last week but I found a pregnant seahorse instead. Small belly and very shy. I left him alone. Next to is I saw a small F. marcussorum with white tips that also had lay eggs. I didn't see its partner. Small belly and very shy. I left him alone. I headed north pass the wall by the columns looking "the tires" for tires and forund 3 but not my subjects or the markers I was ... read more

Last night I had a lot of expectations because of many reasons: I love night dives, I haven’t done the site in over 2 months, I knew the froggies are around and my buddies kept really busy last night dive they did. SK and I started the dive looking for that one sea Urchin that Susan M noticed it had a pregnant squat lobster. While looking for it SK found one of the F. Marcussorum on a shell stock to a seaurchin in the area that Susan M showed me an orange amphipod the Tuesday before. He brought it to me like a beautiful bucquet of flowers. The current was so strong in nudi world that was taking my setup and me like a flag. I burned 500 psi just getting there but we really wanted ... read more

Jim and Susan Mears, Linda, Judy, SK and I got together for Linda’s second retirement celebration with a picnic before the dive. We got to quickly catch up and talk about what everyone was after. I wanted to find that yellow tiny froggie I saw the day before to take a good shot. Instead Linda showed me a tiny gorgeous nudi that I call purplellina. Susan M showed me a seaurchin full of squat lobsters and a cute orange amphipod sitting on a seaurchin. A couple of days after Susan said that those squat lobsters were pregnant. I looked through my photos and if she didn’t tell me I would have never noticed. Look carefully one of them has a big belly and you can see the black eyes of the babies inside the egg. Judy ... read more

I went back to get a good portrait shot of the F. Marcussorum that I call “Purpullina” but I couldn’t find it. SK had mention the day before that one of the nudis was full of eggs and they might have laid them on the day that we didn’t dive the bridge. And they did!. I found the pink eggs but I could not find the nudibranchs. I was hoping that someone got a shot. And guess what? Linda did! I found a l dworf frog fish probably a male. Very shy and it did not like his photo taken. I also found a little nudi I haven’t seen before lay eggs from start to end and a funny orange amphipod spin around a hydroid. I wish I had video that day. It was a great ... read more

Deb sent an email out at 7 am on sunday pointing out that the ocean was like glass. What is that mean? Flat? or like a mirror? Really? hmmm …that is very unusual. (Don't ask me what I was doing on the computer at 7 am on a Sun!) Then she sent me the link to the webcam and that was it. All the original plans totally changed. We did 3 hr and a half searching for macro creatures. My first sight was a searobin. I have never seen one there. Good start. My favorite secretary bennies were everywhere. I love it when they make the crazy look. Deb showed me an orangy one and Steve a yellow one. I go crazy for those. I tried to get a shot of one of the 7 gorgonian ... read more

I didn’t blog this dive right after it so I forgot all the details. I can only remember by the photos what I saw and I would like to share them with you :)... read more