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Snorkelling the Salish Sea
Canada
Приєднався 2 чер 2020
This is where I will put the videos for my website and its blog.
219 Snorkelling at Albert Head
Jellyfish turned out to be the dominant theme of my most recent visit to Albert Head Lagoon Regional Park in Metchosin, BC.
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218 Snorkelling at Albert Head
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This past Saturday was my first time snorkelling at Albert Head in Metchosin. The visibility of the 10-11 C water was blow average but better than has been reported recently at other locations in the area. Despite the high wind, the water was calm due to being sheltered by the land.
213 Snorkelling with Sea Pens
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After an opening panorama of Finnerty Cove, this video shows some of the hundreds, probably thousands, of sea pens on the muddy bottom. Most were at a depth of 7-9 m but the viz was good enough for them to be seen from the surface as fuzzy orange blobs on a cloudy day.
212 Saxe Point Park Snorkelling
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This video is from a very recent 2-hour snorkelling session that began on the Dog Beach (west) side of the park and ended on the Inspiration Cove side (east). Among other invertebrates, it includes one dancing nudibranch and two hooded nudibranchs. The water temperature was 9 C.
211 Snorkelling at the Ogden Point Breakwater
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These are some highlights from Saturday morning, mostly found between the middle stairs and the second bend.
210 Snorkelling at Sturdee Street Cove
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This video is from this morning showing some of what I saw in Esquimalt, BC between Sturdee Street Cove and somewhere around the point to the west of Denniston Park. Conditions were not ideal. Although there was no current, the near-surface viz was bad and we got tossed around by the swell so photography was difficult.
208 Ogden Point Breakwater
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Six local snorkellers took advantage of the good conditions at the breakwater this Saturday morning. We finally had some above-average viz.
209 Snorkelling at Telegraph Cove
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The seasonal kelp is coming back but the visibility is still good. Details are in the blog post. snorkelsalishsea.ca/2024/04/08/209-telegraph-cove/
206 Fish-Eating Anemone
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This large anemone was seen while I and two others were snorkelling at the Ogden Point Breakwater three days ago.
204 Practising at Saxe Point
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This video, made on the Inspiration Cove side of Saxe Point Park, shows at least 5 things. Details are in the blog post ... snorkelsalishsea.ca/2024/03/09/204-practising-at-saxe-point/
202 Buoyancy Check at Ogden Point
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This video shows one of the two buddies who joined me at the Ogden Point Breakwater a few weeks ago for some buoyancy checks. Details are in the blog post ... snorkelsalishsea.ca/2024/03/09/202-buoyancy-checks-at-ogden-point/
200 Snorkelling at Kitty Islet
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This recent dive was probably as close as I will ever come to discovering sunken treasure. It starts with views of the photogenic site in the District of Oak Bay. The in-water part begins about 90 seconds in. Details are in the blog post ... snorkelsalishsea.ca/2024/02/14/200-kitty-islet/
199 Weights and Entries
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This video shows three different people doing surface buoyancy checks, plus a few surface entries. Details are in the blog post ... snorkelsalishsea.ca/2024/02/10/199-weights-and-entries/
198 Snorkelling at the Ogden Point Breakwater
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When I was in Victoria, BC recently, a friend joined me for some snorkelling at the breakwater. We were too busy looking for life between the blocks for me to use the camera much so this one is mostly a panorama from where we entered along the first leg. Just before we exited I did a shallow dive to record a couple of anemones. Details are in the blog post ... snorkelsalishsea.ca/2024/02/06/198...
197 Snorkelling at Telegraph Cove
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The sun came out for Saturday morning snorkelling at Telegraph Cove (the one at the end of Telegraph Bay Road in the District of Saanich, BC). Details are in the blog post ... snorkelsalishsea.ca/2024/01/08/197-telegraph-cove/
187 Summer Snorkelling at Moses Point
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187 Summer Snorkelling at Moses Point
195 November Snorkelling at the Ogden Point Breakwater
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195 November Snorkelling at the Ogden Point Breakwater
194 Snorkelling at Moses Point, North Saanich, BC
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194 Snorkelling at Moses Point, North Saanich, BC
185 Ardmore Snorkelling - Underwater View
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185 Ardmore Snorkelling - Underwater View
Peter Cove - North Side - Surface Panorama
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Peter Cove - North Side - Surface Panorama
Peter Cove - North Side - Shore Panorama
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Peter Cove - North Side - Shore Panorama
Kingscote Beach Snorkelling - Underwater Highlights
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Kingscote Beach Snorkelling - Underwater Highlights
looks wonderful. Oddly the UA-cam algorithm decided to add that link to Moses Pointe golf club in the middle of Washington State :-)
Thanks, Doug. I had not noticed that. Maybe it picked up on the fact that I mentioned the blog post but forgot to actually include the link so I have fixed that. I also added the municipality name to reduce any ambiguity.
Interesting video. Any idea what type of fish are in the video at around 1:30 minutes into the video? They look like they were swimming in schools. Do they hang around the shipwreck or were they just swimming by?
I don't know what they are but it's pretty common for artificial reefs to attract fish so it would not surprise me if there are large schools there all year long. That was my first time there. The nearby shore had several people fishing from the rocks.
I see a lot of interesting and diverse starfish in your videos. Are they really abundant where you snorkel, or do you prefer videotaping starfish so it just seems like there are lots of them when there really aren't that many?
They are indeed more abundant at most of the locations where I like to go snorkelling but there are several other reasons for them showing up so often in my videos: 1. They are easy to photograph because they move very slowly. 2. They are most common in the shallow intertidal waters that are easily accessible either from the surface or within range of very shallow breath-hold dives. 3. On sunny days, it is easier to find sea stars that have good natural lighting than animals deeper below the surface. 4. I am always looking for signs of the wasting disease that the starfish have not completely recovered from. 5. People who see my photos seem to like the starfish ones more than most of the rest, possibly because sea stars look more familiar to them than other creatures like sponges and nudibranchs.
Mail-cheeked fish are fish that belong to the order Scorpaeniformes, there are over two-thousand, one-hundred, and eighteen extant species within forty families, fourteen superfamilies, and five suborders, the five main groups of mail-cheeked fish (order Scorpaeniformes) are Normanichthyoidei (Bacaladillo, Prettyfin, and Sandfish), Platycephaloidei (Flatheads and Gurnards), Zoarcoidei (Eelpouts, Wolffish, Wolfeel, Pricklebacks, Wrymouths, Gunnels, Goblin Goby, Graveldiver, Ronquils, and Quillfish), Cottoidei (Sculpins, Lumpsuckers, Snailfish, Greenlings, Blackcod, and Combfish), and Scorpaenoidei (Scorpionfish, Lionfish, Stonefish, Coral Crouchers, Prowfish, Toad Blenny, Horsefish, Pigfish, and Velvetfish), the suborder Normanichthyoidei is the most basal of the five suborders of mail-cheeked fish and is divided into two superfamilies being Trichodontoidea (Sandfish and Fossil Relatives) for the family Trichodontidae (Sandfish) and Normanichthyoidea (Bacaladillo and Prettyfin) for the families Normanichthyidae (Bacaladillo) and Centrogenyidae (Prettyfin), followed by the suborder Platycephaloidei which is divided into two superfamilies being Trigloidea (Gurnards) for the families Triglidae (Common Gurnards), Peristediidae (Armored Gurnards), and Dactylopteridae (Flying Gurnards) and Platycephaloidea (Flatheads) for the families Platycephalidae (True Flatheads), Hoplichthyidae (Ghost Flatheads), and Bembridae (Deepwater Flatheads), then followed by the suborder Zoarcoidei which is divided into four superfamilies being Bathymasteroidea (Ronquils and Quillfish) for the families Bathymasteridae (Ronquils) and Ptilichthyidae (Quillfish), Zaproroidea (Goblin Goby and Graveldiver) for the families Zaproridae (Goblin Goby) and Scytalinidae (Graveldiver), Zoarcoidea (Eelpouts) for the families Eulophiidae (Spinous Eelpouts) and Zoarcidae (True Eelpouts), and Anarhichadoidea (Wolffish, Wolfeel, Pricklebacks, Wrymouths, and Gunnels) for the families Pholidae (Gunnels), Cryptacanthodidae (Wrymouths), Stichaeidae (Pricklebacks), and Anarhichadidae (Wolffish and Wolfeel), with the most recent split being between the suborders Cottoidei and Scorpaenoidei, the Cottoidei suborder consists of three superfamilies being Hexagrammoidea (Greenlings, Blackcod, and Combfish) for the families Zaniolepididae (Combfish), Anoplopomatidae (Blackcod), and Hexagrammidae (Greenlings), Cyclopteroidea (Lumpsuckers and Snailfish) for the families Liparidae (Snailfish) and Cyclopteridae (Lumpsuckers), and Cottoidea (Sculpins) for the families Agonidae (Poachers), Rhamphocottidae (Gruntfish), Bathylutichthyidae (Antarctic Sculpins), Ereuniidae (Deepwater Sculpins), Psychrolutidae (Fathead Sculpins), Comephoridae (Baikal Sculpins), Hemitripteridae (Sea Ravens), and Cottidae (Common Sculpins) and the Scorpaenoidei suborder is also divided into three superfamilies being Congiopodoidea (Horsefish, Pigfish, and Velvetfish) for the families Aploactinidae (Velvetfish) and Congiopodidae (Horsefish and Pigfish), Pataecoidea (Prowfish and Toad Blenny) for the families Gnathanacanthidae (Toad Blenny) and Pataecidae (Prowfish), and Scorpaenoidea (Scorpionfish, Lionfish, Stonefish, Coral Crouchers, Rockfish, and Cofish) for the families Eschmeyeridae (Cofish), Sebastidae (Rockfish), Pteroidea (Lionfish, Stonefish, and Coral Crouchers), and Scorpaenidae (Scorpionfish).
A couple of weeks ago, you posted a video of a group of small, well camouflaged fish scurrying around when you swam near. When they moved they were easy to spot. This little guy looks alone and stays still. Maybe their survival tactic is when in a group everyone takes off swimming in all directions to confuse the predator but if alone you trust your camouflage and stay still. Or maybe it's not that complicated and this guy was asleep when you swam by.😄
I had not thought of that but it sounds entirely possible. 👍
What's that purple thing at the end? I like to imagine the camera man saw a sea snake and suddenly quit filming
Technically, it's an example of Pisaster ochraceus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisaster_ochraceus but most people call it an ochre star or a purple star. The purple ones are by far the most common around here. I cut the video where I did because right after that I lost focus as I turned the camera toward a bunch of seaweed. Here is a better view of one ua-cam.com/video/HuwHk_pZhys/v-deo.html
Bullheads
is that a Rush reference?
Not consciously. Which lyrics?
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@@tomjulian7226 Thank you for the cultural enrichment. 😀 I guess The Spirit of Radio grabs most of the attention on Permanent Waves.
Crustaceans and sculpins! Love it! :)
The creatures are very well camouflaged when they are still but when they move you can easily see them. I'm surprised they didn't remain still. Very clear video. Thanks.
Very true. I doubt that they would have caught my attention without their hectic lifestyles.