Alki Pipeline search

Wind and waves chased us to the south side of Alki where it was sunny and beautiful. The viz was outstanding and the sun was beautiful on this shallow dive. Lots of big, beautiful sea lemons showing their full plumage as well as a few other assorted nudibranchs as well. The purple ochre stars were just beatiful in the sunlight as well. There was some current but nothing horrible - we made it to the lower pipe and then back in just fine.

Beautiful dive at the pipeline, despite poor visibility (which cleared up a little towards the pipeline mouth at ~35 ft but not much). The usual cast of tons of orange cucumbers, false and noble sea lemons, tons of leopard dorids, kelp greenlings out by the pipeline mouth, two white berthellas. Of note, we saw both a morning sunstar and a sunflower star, which I generally feel like I see rarely (and I didnt think to run the experiment of putting them together :) ).