2. Diving

I wish they all could be California Fish

The REEF Advanced Assessment Team hits Monterey California for the annual survey. Claude and I were among the lucky fish-counters doing dives that week.
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Kelp Rockfish just hangs among the strands of kelp
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Kelp Rockfish just hangs among the strands of kelp

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  • Hydrocoral clusters and strawberry anemones perched with a background of green giant kelp
  • The Monterey 2010 REEF survey team
  • Vermilion Rockfish
  • Kelp Rockfish swimming among what else? Kelp!
  • The REEF survey team at Point Lobos.
  • Red Turban Snail
  • Samurai Dive Boat Captain Phil Sammet machetes the watermelon.
  • Hydrocoral clusters
  • Fish eating anemone
  • Young of Year Rockfish.
  • Two juvenile Blue Rockfish
  • Aggregated Nipple Sponge - which we affectionately call Aggravated Nipple Sponge. :)
  • Gopher Rockfish
  • Coralline Sculpin
  • An egg laying party of Kellett's Whelks.
  • Claude hovering near the anchor line on the ascent.
  • A nice pink cluster of hydrocoral.
  • Red turban snail
  • Cabezon perches on a rock reef
  • Kelp Rockfish just hangs among the strands of kelp
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