Beautiful dive at Dolphin today. Dale spotted some kind of sucker fish. Little orange nudi. Brown rockfish. Gumboot chitons of all sizes, including a few cute little ones, and a few with yellow mottling. Two ling cod egg masses guarded by dads. Beautiful spiral nudi egg ribbon. Some big healthy-looking sunflower stars. Male wolf eel has taken up residence, although was shy.
I was swimming along and almost ran head-first into a big male GPO that was sitting out on the sand/rock. He started to trundle along, doing a little hunting for snacks and not bothered by our presence at all. He found a tree branch and chewed it in half (!!!). My video light worked great to get some nice photos of him out and about. I ended up in deco and went up into the water column to watch from above.
I don't know what it is about this year and GPO encounters, but this is the 4th one this season that's been out and about without caring divers are around.
Night dive at Wall Beach
Night dive at Wall Beach
Night dive at Wall Beach
Night dive at Wall Beach
Night dive at Wall Beach
Night dive at Wall Beach
Night dive at Wall Beach
Male guarding eggs
Night dive at Wall Beach
Night dive at Wall Beach
Night dive at Wall Beach
Night dive at Wall Beach
Night dive at Wall Beach
Does anyone know what the orange mottling is?
Night dive at Wall Beach
Night dive at Wall Beach
Night dive at Wall Beach
Night dive at Wall Beach
Night dive at Wall Beach
Night dive at Wall Beach
Night dive at Wall Beach
Night dive at Wall Beach
Night dive at Wall Beach
Night dive at Wall Beach
A pregnant copper rockfish missing most of her tail :-( She was able to swim okay, though, it seemed.
Night dive at Wall Beach
Night dive at Wall Beach
Night dive at Wall Beach
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