Tag: san diego
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Nudibranchs: Hermissenda crassicornis
Another cool nudibranch in southern California is the opalescent sea slug: Hermissenda crassicornis. I think the small one might be a Flabellina pricei but I’m not 100% certain.
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Nice to Meet You
Spotted underwater at the La Jolla Shores: a graceful crab and a sand dollar getting to know one another.
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Nudibranchs: Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
After more than a month out of the water, and two months out of the cold California water, I finally got to go diving again! We spent the weekend on the Horizon dive boat diving San Clemente Island and the kelp beds of Point Loma, San Diego. I saw lots of sea lions and a…
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Raindrops
I appreciate the irony in the fact that while people back in Vermont are skiing in 70-degree sunshine, snow levels here in Southern California have dropped to 2000′. Here at the beach, though, we’re only getting rain.
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San Diego, California: The Running of the Squid
2011’s market squid run was one of the most incredible phenomena I have ever experienced while diving. Every year, tens of thousands of these foot-long squid congregate to mate, lay eggs, and die. The water was thick with San Diego squid–visibility was limited not by particulate in the water column, but by the density of…
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Birds on a streetlamp
I’d been driving around San Diego for a few days, looking for a spot to do the typical “birds on a power line” photo, but this opportunity presented itself first. I cranked the exposure and contrast in post to get a flat white background.
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A rainy morning in the garden.
It drizzled this morning for a few hours. One of the things I was looking forward to when we came to San Diego was the ability to grow fresh tomatoes year-round, but I came to find out that beach winters here are still a bit too cold for fruit. The plants have a lot of…
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Sand Dollar
Living sand dollars are all over the place underwater in San Diego, but I don’t see the skeletons that often.