The weather was favourable for a third dive of the day, so we headed across the crossing to Denman island to dive “Dinner Plate”<\/p>\n
Just by the name, it sounded like we should prepare for a little of everything, and that we did!<\/p>\n
There were a dozen or so curious sealions that liked to buzz us and follow us around. Definitely more friendly than the earlier dive, but not cuddly like the first dive.<\/p>\n
The site has some cool rocks and undercuts teaming with life. Urchins, Anenomes, Rock Fish. Even found a very large Puget Sound King Crab out in the open. After doing some filming on him, I turned back to our group and spotted, under a rock in a dugout, a GPO arm!<\/p>\n
I signaled, and we moved in for a closer look. I tried to coax it out with a shiny bolt snap, some tapping and even offering a warm(ish) hand, but it didn’t want to come out. It did however, stick out a small arm to investigate.<\/p>\n
In the rubble piles, I also found quite a few larger nudi’s like the Giant Nudibranch, as well as some Lemon Peels in various states of lemon colouring.<\/p>\n
It’s also the time of year for Ling Cod to have egg masses with the large males guarding them. We spotted a few with and without the male guards along the dive.<\/p>\n
Near the end, the chill was really setting in, and at the last rock we passed, another large GPO was spotted. Some more coaxing, and this one came out for a brief second with a few tentacles. But sadly, the fate was the same as the one before, didn’t want to come out.<\/p>\n
With the angle of both of their dens, I didn’t see any eggs, but they certainly could well have been guarding some.<\/p>\n
Dive Depth: 12m
\nDive Time: 70min<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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