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Some of the images I've taken diving locally over the years
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California kelp forest
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California kelp forest

Diving in a California kelp forest has been compared to "flying thru a forest". On the right day it can certainly be magical!

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  • California kelp forest
  • A Garibaldi patrols his little part of the kelp forest
  • A Bat Ray glides by
  • Juvenile treefish hiding on the reef
  • Diver in the forest
  • Unknown juvenile flatfish with body color just starting to develop to match surroundings
  • Sea Nettle Jellyfish
  • Painted Greenling
  • Hermissenda Crassicornis Nudibranch crawls across the bottom
  • Polyclad Flatworm crawls over a small Hermissenda Crassicornis Nudibranch
  • Small octopus peeks out from a crack under Monterey's Wharf 2
  • Juvenile rockfish among strawberry anemones
  • Black Dorid (Polysera atra) Nudibranch
  • Hermissenda Crassicornis Nudibranch Pair
  • Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
  • Anisodoris Nobilis Nudibranch - Sea Lemon
  • Hermit Crab with a coat of live barnacles
  • Canary Rockfish
  • Lingcod Waits in Ambush
  • Snubnose Sculpin
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