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Plumose anemone (Metridium senile)
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Exploring the anemone on the barge
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A carpet of plumose anemone (Metridium senile)
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Wall-to-wall anemone (Metridium senile)
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They come in orange, too! (Metridium senile)
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A pair of dungeness crab (Cancer magister), happy to see eachother
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Green sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis)
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Urchin and anemone
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Baby anemones
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Scary hatch!
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Giant California sea cucumber (Parastichopus californicus)
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Painted greenling (Oxylebius pictus)
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Clown nudibranch (Triopha catalinae)
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This northern kelp crab (Pugettia producta) really wanted to attack my camera!
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Sea lemons (Peltodoris nobilis), in two different shades of yellow.
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Stay out of my hole!
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This could be a young rock crab, but I'm not sure...
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Sea lemon (Peltodoris nobilis)
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Huuuge sea lemon (Peltodoris nobilis)
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Melissa has to take a picture of the lemon dorid, too.
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San Diego dorid (Diaulula sandiegensis)
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Sea lemon (Peltodoris nobilis)
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Another crab I can't quite identify
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The wrong end of a giant California sea cucumber (Parastichopus californicus)
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Clown nudibranch (Triopha catalinae) eggs
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Juvenile wolf eel (Anarrhichthys ocellatus)
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Scallop!
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Another pair of dungeness crab (Cancer magister), hugging it out