These photos are from Dec. 28, 2011. I did 2 dives and these photos are from the second dive (I brought a video camera on the first). Visibility was about 60 feet. Steller's sea lions visited me on both dives, but I didn't get any decent still photos since they always showed up when my camera was 10 feet away with the timer going off for my self-portraits. You can see one of them sneaking up behind me in one of the photos. On a clear day like today, when the sealions are out and the lingcod are mating around the zoanthid-covered boulders, this can be a great Nanoose-area dive.
urchins on the top of the reef
sunflower star and green urchins
green urchins
sealion charging up behind me
zoanthids on side of reef
lingcod
zoanthid-covered boulder on top of the reef
zoanthid-covered boulder on top of the reef
sponges and zoanthids on boulder
zoanthid-covered boulder on top of the reef
quillback rockfish on zoanthid-covered boulder on top of the reef
quillback rockfish
zoanthids on boulder
quillback rockfish
tiger rockfish
sea pen
poorly-aimed self-portrait with sea pen
sea pen
rockfish and urchins att the end of the reef
lingcod, etc
a lot of these copper rockfish had tails sticking out of their mouths
another tiger rockfish
lingcod
painted anemone
zoanthid-covered block on top of the reef
copper rockfish and zoanthids on boulder
zoanthid-covered boulder on top of the reef
zoanthids on the boulder
lincod and zoanthid-covered boulders
zoanthids and urchins on another boulder
copper rockfish and zoanthids
lingcod and zoanthid-covered boulders
gap between boulders and muck stirred up by a lingcod
zoanthid-covered boulder
sunflower star and urchins
lingcod and a sunflower star
sunflower star on the edge of the reef
sunflower stars and green urchins on top of the reef
back near the surface