Went for crab, but only found four undersized -- and the only male I found had no claws. :( Still a lovely day for a dive. I surface-swam all the way south around the end of the Viewpoint Trail rocks and descended there, coming back underwater north exploring rocks along the way. Most of the life I saw was out on the rocks. Viz was terrible (< 5'). At least there's never any current at this site. Not sure what's happened to the eelgrass at this site: there's still a fair amount near the boat launch, but all the eelgrass out by the beach and the far rocks has died. I must have traversed an acre of dead eelgrass out by the point. Highlight of the dive was the dozen or so hooded nudibranchs I saw in the eelgrass on the way back and one whitespotted greenling. 15 species on my REEF survey.
Poor viz (as always), but the hundreds of hooded nudibranchs were worth the dive. I submerged at the rocks on the east side of the cove in 6' of water, explored those rocks for a bit (nothing there), and then proceeded due south through the eelgrass -- and the hooded nudibranchs -- to the rocks by Viewpoint Trail at the mouth of the cove. I did find several leather stars, white-lined dironas, orange sea cucumbers, and red rock crabs on the outer rocks.
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A bay pipefish at Larrabee State Park in the Bellingham Area. Photo by Mike Snow.
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