Brent's Photography

Some nice looking areas:

- Very swimmable when the current / wind is agreeable. A bit deeper than the other places shown in the other photos.
- I like this. Amazing flow, yet sheltered.
- Just WOW.
- Again, good flow here.
- Just one of the smaller tidepools along Keels beach.
- Another WOW.


In depth:

- See the orange spot on the algae? That’s a nudibranch. I’m actually standing on a small, algae-coated ridge that outlines this small tidepool on the ocean side of it. =O
- Interesting macro.
- A snail and som’more macro of sorts.
- Shrimpy shrimpy shrimp.
- Definitely low tide. Some nice coralline visible.
- There was some interesting life visible here. This was one of the last places we visited though so I never got to go in depth, unfortunately.
- Nice little inlet.
- Such beauty. I’d really like and ID here please.
- A small channel. Runs about 30ft inshore.
- Another shot of the same channel.


I have so many pictures of this trip (200+). It took me a long time to narrow it down to these pictures (above). Haha

Nice shots.

Thanks. I was rushed to get them though, as I was with my aunt and her young son.

Any ideas on that plant, though ( the white one- url next to "Such beauty. I'd really like to get an ID here please )? It is completely submerged in the picture, by the way.

[e]

In fact, an ID of any of the species of plant shown would be great.

[e2] Except the rockweed/wrackweed. ;]

You might PM bluenassarius about those. He seems to be an expert on Macros whereas I am not.

I've actually got an ID on that brown macro (with the little white nodules) posted thanks to the book 'A PHOTOGRAPHIC GUIDE TO Seashore Life IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC Canada to Cape Cod' by J. Duane Sept.

It was actually just a macro with Sinistral Spiral Tubeworms Spirorbis Spirorbis on it. Who'd've thought? Most of the others are in said book as well... Just some species of Kelp and Rockweed, some Knotted Wrack and what I believe to be Maiden Hair Sea Lettuce Ulva Intestinalis.

Thanks for the suggestion though, but I'm pretty good for identifications now, unless of course I end up finding something extraordinarily odd. Unlikely?

Nice.

Glad you found out what it was.

yeah those worms are spirobid worms. temperate kind though.

That's fine; I be temperate as well.

We have a similar occurrence of a similar species, if not the same, in California.

Yeah. A lot of what I've been seeing around here has a range in the Pacific as well. You've got more diversity over in SoCal though, I think.

Oh, and I am pleased to report that I have an underwater casing for my Sony Cyber-Shot DSC W210 camera. I tried it out today at the beach, got a few pictures but the waves were really pounding me around. I wasn't daring enough to go out to the tidepools today, as they were so large. I'm pretty sure there's a hurricane warning for Nova Scotia so perhaps it had something to do with that storm. Whatever the reason for the rough seas, I'm hoping it'll be better tomorrow. In all fairness though, I did have a good time in the water what-with said waves.

I also saw a few SEA BUTTERFLIES today! The pictures didn't turn out great as the sand bed kept getting stirred up and both the 'fly and I were having a hard time keeping to the same location... I was amazed at the fluent movements that these guys swam with. One kept surfacing and diving and spinning around, but I lost it in the current after a minute or so. Wish I had my camera out with me then. Ah well. ;]

/rant

I've never heard of a sea butterfly?

Don't remember, huh?

https://temperatereef.forumotion.com/opisthobranchs-f31/naked-sea-butterfly-newfoundland-t169-60.htm#4223

Oh hahaha.

I took a video a few days ago and only just now uploaded it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wivYqMvh1bs

Neato. Cool starfish.

Agreed. :wink:

I just got an idea:

Set my camera up at an angle underwater in a tidepool, on video mode, and because Youtube has a 10min max video length, leave it there for 10 minutes. I bet we'd see things I never would notice just by looking down at the pool.

Whadd'ya think?

Sounds like a plan! Plus things are more likely to come out of hiding with you gone.

Alright then.

I might take the video tomorrow, if conditions are good.

Just make sure that you don't get glare coming off the water surface.

I have an underwater camera case thing! 12 MP underwater.

Gonna be sweet.

Oh neatt. This should be good then. I'm expecting great things .

Well this sucks.

Today was supposed to be 25 degrees C and full sun.

It was, up until about 1/2 an hour from my town. From there, the sky turned really grey and it got cold. The tide was way up with no access to the rocks so I couldn't get the video.

Let's hope tomorrow is better.

Stormy weather here to.

Stormy weather is so... urgh.

Lovely forecast:

Tonight: A few clouds. Increasing cloudiness after midnight then periods of drizzle. Fog patches developing overnight. Low 13.
Friday: Periods of drizzle ending in the morning then cloudy with sunny periods. Periods of drizzle in onshore winds late in the morning and in the afternoon. Fog patches dissipating in the morning. Wind becoming east 30 km/h in the morning except gusting to 50 along the coast late in the morning and in the afternoon. High 18 except 15 along parts of the coast. UV index 5 or moderate.
Friday night: Cloudy with 60 percent chance of drizzle. Wind east 30 km/h except gusting to 50 along the coast. Low 11.
Saturday: Cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. High 14.
Sunday: Cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. Low 12. High 17. Monday: Cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. Low 10. High 15.
Tuesday: Cloudy with 40 percent chance of showers. Low 12. High 21.
Wednesday: Cloudy. Low 14. High 23.