Friday, November 9, the fifth day of our wonderful six day Channel Islands diving trip on the Vision out of Santa Barbara, found us diving on San Miguel, the farthest west of the Channel Islands (next stop west is the Hawaiian Islands), and frequently too rough to get to and dive safely. We continued to enjoy exceptional fine weather, the only sad thing being the massive plume of smoke covering the islands from the awful catastrophic Woolsey fire that was consuming some of Malibu and turned the sun into a red ball in the sky giving limited light...
Below are some pictures from our first dive site of the day, Castle Rock, for more please go to:
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Our second dive was at Adam's Cove, off another large sea lion rookery, so more fun with sea lions, but in a Kelp Forest. Below are some pictures, more at:
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Mike Williams with new friends at Adam's Cove
I decided to try shooting some selfies with the curious sea lions.
I keep looking for the caption in this guy's bubble, like "Who is this clumsy idiot?"
Our final dives of the day were on Wyckoff's Ledge, an incredible dive site, it's a long ridge, huge rock structures, amazingly dense invertebrate life, and lots of fish. I don't have many pictures from this site, I managed to fill up the memory card in my camera with sea lion shots from the first two sites....Below are a few pictures, some more are at:
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Metridium Senile, up to about four inches tall, not to be confused with Metridium facimen, commonly called the Plumrose Anemone, which get up to 20 inches tall.
There were a number of beautiful Spanish Shawl nudibranchs scattered about this site. This is the best photo I've ever taken of one. I'm particularly pleased with getting this shot since I was using my wide angle fisheye Tokina 10-17 mm lens, not my macro lens. The nudibranch is a couple inches long.
Treefish with Strawberry Anemones
Hairy Hermit Crab
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