The Crap Patch and Beyond

The dive reports suggested good diving conditions at the shores so I headed out for a night dive. The sunset was gorgeous at the shores, attracting a lot of beach goers. I geared up and decided to try the crap patch. I started from the far north and wanted to check out the cliffs in that area.

The kicking out turned out to be a bit challenging as the strong wind made the surface really choppy. I dropped off a bit earlier and headed toward northwest. The current was strong. In fact there was this strong up current flowing out from down the canyon. The cliffs I was looking at are in between the secret garden and the crap patch. From far, I noticed something different. Swimming in I took a closer look and found that the area was full of a kind of brown algae. It had this puffy looking and grew on nearly everything. The whole area looked really dead. There were also tons of baby sand dollars, bright white in color and of course dead. Most likely they were washed off the canyon by the recent storms. As I headed to the south, the scene looked more and more bleak. I did not see many nudibranchs. I guess it was because of the recent rain and storm, which brought lots of bacteria and nutrition to the shores. This in turn stimulates the algae growth.

But there are still some interesting encounters. At night the scorpion fish was lying on the sandy slope.

A scorpion fish on the sandy flat

My light brought in lots of krill. This agitated the fish and they would jump up to catch the swimming krill.

In between the two grassy patches, I found a spotted triopha, and spent sometime taking pictures.

Next to the triopha, I spotted a Spanish shawl.

A Spanish shawl (Flabellina iodinea)
A Spanish shawl (Flabellina iodinea)

Its color looked gorgeous at night.

Along the sandy slope, there were quite some tube-dwelling sea anemone.

A purple tube-dwelling sea anemone hunting on krill
A purple tube-dwelling sea anemone hunting on krill

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They looked like flowers but inf fact they were krill killers. They got excited when the light shone on them as it brought in lots of krill.

Of course there were sarcastic fringehead here and there.

I also found a baby horn shark and tested out the lighting: flood light vs. internal flash.

Then there was this Hedgpeth’s Dorid (Polycera hedgpethi).

Hedgpeth's Dorid (Polycera hedgpethi)
Hedgpeth’s Dorid (Polycera hedgpethi)

I don’t see them very often.

Well the most fun was on my way back along the sandy flat, where I saw this red octopus. It lost one arm and I was surprised to see it hanging around such a shallow depth.

A red octopus on the sandy flat
A red octopus on the sandy flat

Octopus is one of those creatures that I can take pictures again and again.

Despite the strong current and the choppy surface, this was a nice dive.

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