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photos
©2003 Nicolle Pratt
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Giant
Pacific Octopus
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Giant
Pacific Octopus
female tending to her eggs
(females will not leave their den while sitting on eggs, thus turning
white and eventually dying once their babies are born)
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Giant
Nudibranch
(you
can't tell by this picture, but the nudibranch's head to the right
is buried in the bottom feeding on a Tube Dwelling Anemone. we saw
it "strike" right before I took this photo.)
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Tube
Dwelling Anemone
(typical
food to the Giant Nudibranch pictured left)
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Female
Wolfeel
(you
can identify this wolfeel as a female by the rounder narrower shape
of her head. females also have typically darker colored and less
"bumpy" heads than males)
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Female
Wolfeel
(we
swam in the open with this female wolfeel for about 2-3 minutes!)
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Crimson
Anemone
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Opal
Squid
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Black
Rockfish
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Painted
Greenling
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Plainfin
Midshipmen
(these
fish are typically deep water dwelling fish and are rare to encounter--usually
only during the Summer months in shallower water.)
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Pile
Perch, Striped Perch, and Shiner Perch
(3
of the 4 perch in our waters! only the kelp perch isn't pictured
here.)
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Lewis's
Moonsnail
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Rock
Sole
(identifiable
by the white spots spaced along the side of its body next to its
fin. see them?)
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