7/17/2006 - Diving Dry Today

The Great American Fish Count was cancelled at Marineland today due to high surf so Merry and I went back to the Cabrillo Beach boat launch in search of nudis. It was the first time in awhile we had been there in the middle of the day. We found a few that we don't see often, including Flabellina trilineata

Janolus barbarensis

Polycrea atra

and Dendronotus frondosus

The fun part of the event is finding them in the first place. The two pictures of the Polycera atra above are closeups of the little blip on the kelp stipe in this picture.

We also found more Lion nudis than we could shake a kelp stipe at. I hope the storms off Baja will clear out soon. I miss taking my camera under water.