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gmonkey42Those last few went by pretty quickly. Today I did another volunteer dive to remove an invasive kelp from the Monterey Harbor. I got closer to finding some this time: I found a plant that looked like Undaria but that wasn't it. Oh well. I saw a skate! It was about 8 inches long and shaped like the back half of a shark with a flappy body at the front and little eyes on top. Cool! There were lots of sea lions nearby but I didn't see any from underwater. I saw the usual nifty invertebrates: sea stars, anemones, crabs. I also saw a lot of nudibranchs today. Lots of the neon purple ones with orange gills on top. Orange the color of Tang. And they just slug along, waving their little feelers. They're cute. There was also a sea cucumber AND a sunflower star, so there were two squishy things I resisted the urge to pet.
It wouldn't really hurt them - especially the sea star, they're all spiny and tough - but I don't want to bother sea life for no good reason.
I think I might be able to see color underwater more easily than most people. Sometimes people describe things like "it's really orange but I know it looked sort of brown underwater" but it looked orange to me. I don't have one of those tinted masks or anything. I guess I'm just lucky. Or maybe to some extent it's me interpreting "it's brownish, but without the bluey-green filter it'd be orange." One time I saw a vermilion rock fish and its spots looked plenty orange-red to me, though. That was maybe 40 feet down. Today we were in really shallow water so everyone could see the colors. Except the one guy who was colorblind.
It wouldn't really hurt them - especially the sea star, they're all spiny and tough - but I don't want to bother sea life for no good reason.
I think I might be able to see color underwater more easily than most people. Sometimes people describe things like "it's really orange but I know it looked sort of brown underwater" but it looked orange to me. I don't have one of those tinted masks or anything. I guess I'm just lucky. Or maybe to some extent it's me interpreting "it's brownish, but without the bluey-green filter it'd be orange." One time I saw a vermilion rock fish and its spots looked plenty orange-red to me, though. That was maybe 40 feet down. Today we were in really shallow water so everyone could see the colors. Except the one guy who was colorblind.
