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Category Archives: Pic of the Day
Pic of the Day – Vancouver Lighthouse
A break today from underwater pictures. Instead, I offer up a Vancouver city scene, taken on the weekend, from a marine perspective. On Sunday afternoon, the heavy morning clouds started to mound to the east as they opened up in … Continue reading
Posted in British Columbia Travel, Pic of the Day
Tagged Lighthouse, Lighthouse Park, Point Atkinson
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Pic of the Day – Wolf Eel
Here is a Friday funny fish face. This is a Wolf Eel (Anarrhichthys ocellatus), from British Columbia. I have been featuring mostly tropical images on the blog lately, and figured it was time to share some stuff from my backyard. … Continue reading
Posted in All About Scuba Diving, Photography, Pic of the Day
Tagged Anarrhichthys ocellatus, Wolf Eel
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Pic of the Day – Psychedelic Frogfish
A funny fish face for Friday. I wonder if the first person to spot this bizarre looking frogfish thought someone had spiked their pre-dive beverage with a little tot of Lysergic Acid. I mean, really? What forces of nature would have … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Pic of the Day
Tagged Histiophryne psychedelica, Psychedelic Frogfish
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Pic of the Day – Free Swimming Flatworm
Yesterday, we were looking more to the big picture, with imagery from Stingray City in Grand Cayman. Today’s pic is back to something quite small, and I think a bit unusual – a free swimming flatworm, that I captured in … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambon Harbour, Flatworm, Muck Diving, Pseudobiceros
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Pic of the Day – Stingray City
Here is an image from an iconic dive site in Grand Cayman. This is yet another of many trips where I never got around to writing up a trip report. My bad. I was fortunate enough to be invited to … Continue reading
Pic of the Day – Things that make you say Ahhhh…
Fiji is the home of outrageously colourful and lively reefs. This is a wide angle view of the top of a coral bommie – a vertical, slim pinnacle that rises up from the sea floor. In parts of Fiji, these … Continue reading
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Tagged Fiji, N'aia, Vatu-i-Ra
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Pic of the Day – Red-Lipped Batfish
Friday flew by, and I didn’t find an opportunity to share a funny fish face. So here it is, a day late. And what a very strange fish this is. This species of batfish is specific to the Galapagos Islands. … Continue reading
Pic of the Day – Soft Coral Crab
Back to the Crabfest, again. There are a lot of strange crustaceans out there, and this is yet another. This little beauty is a Soft Coral Crab (Hoplophrys oatesti). Like its name suggests, it is commonly found on soft corals, … Continue reading
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Tagged Hoplophrys oatesti, Soft Coral Crab
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Pic of the Day – Redline Flabellina Nudibranch
Yesterday, I opened wide and showed some images of a healthy coral reef grown over a recent lava flow. Today, I am zooming back into something quite teeny – about an inch long. This redline Flabellina Nudibranch (Flabellina rubrolineata) is … Continue reading
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Tagged Flabellina Rubrolineata
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Pic of the Day – Lava Flow
Out of destruction, there is sometimes beauty. This image was captured at Banda Api, in the Banda Sea area of Indonesia. This dive site is aptly named “Lava Flow”. In May 1988, Bandi Api volcano (elevation 640 metres/2100 feet) explosively … Continue reading
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Tagged Banda Api, Lava Flow, Volcano
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Pic of the Day – Orangutan Crab
So by now you might be thinking – whassup with the roll call of crustaceans? Is this chick crabby or what? There is something you might not know about me – I get on a thing (Words With Friends, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Oncinopus sp 1, Orangutan Crab
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Pic of the Day – Coral Hermit Crab
Okay, so I am feeling crabby again, even though the biblical rain storm that we woke up to this morning has blown through (literally – huge, gusty winds right now), and the sun has made an appearance. I am crabby … Continue reading
Pic of the Day – Stonycoral Ghostgoby
So I seem to be on bit of a macro run ;^) I captured this little goby on a trip to the Banda Sea, in Indonesia. When trying to identify it, I had to wade through pages and pages (and … Continue reading
Pic of the Day – Feeling Crabby
I will admit that I am feeling a bit crabby today. The rains have returned after a blissful stretch of warm and sunny weather here in Vancouver. In the span of a few lovely days, during which our garden literally … Continue reading
Pic of the Day – Hairy Squat Lobster
Yesterday, I featured an image of a large barrel sponge. Today I share an image of a Hairy Squat Lobster (Lauriea siagiani). These things are quite tiny – about 3/4 inch across its carapace. They are pink in colour, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Hairy Squat Lobster, Lauriea siagiani
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Pic of the Day – Spongeworthy?
Today’s pic is a bigass barrel sponge, taken in the Banda Sea of Indonesia. Sponges are cool things – they grow big (this one was at least four feet tall), and fast, and are host to several little reef critters, … Continue reading
Pic of the Day – Canoodling Cuttlefish
It’s no secret, I love cuttlefish. I could watch them all day. Inquisitive, seemingly intelligent, quick to colour and pattern change – these are fascinating animals to encounter on a dive. Cuttlefish belong to the same family as octopus and … Continue reading
Pic of the Day – Balloon Fish
Here’s a cutie for a funny Friday fish face. The image of this Balloon Fish (Diodon holocanthus) was captured in Ambon Harbour, Indonesia. A member of the porcupine fish family, these guys and gals can inflate themselves up into a … Continue reading
Pic of the Day – Peacock Mantis Shrimp
The Peacock Mantis Shrimp (Odontodactylus scyllarus) packs a heck of a punch. Equipped with a smashing claw – used for breaking shells to eat their inhabitants – these shrimp are more than capable of shattering the macro port of an … Continue reading