it was wild moving to california & learning that many of the monarch butterflies migrate east to west, not north to south like they do east of the sierra nevadas this is a cluster of overwintering monarchs on a eucalyptus in pacific grove's monarch sanctuary (sorry it's backlit, early morning) 🌿🐛🦋

I will never tidepool at night without a uv light again 🌊🌿🦀🐙🦑

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love a good wandering meatloaf & little tidepool sculpins 🌊🌿🐟🐙🦑

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I love how abalone shells can become mini reefs 🌊🌿🐙🦑

so many good finds while there was still daylight 🌊🌿🦀🐙🦑

one more night in the tidepools tonight & I had a blast seeing who fluoresces! just about every crustacean I found fluoresced including eelgrass isopods (couldn't get a good pic unfortunately) 🌊🌿🦀🐙🦑

a little more tidepooling to find my favorite squishies 🌊🌿🐙🦑

why are brittle stars such adorable echinoderms? I feel like this is a betrayal of my lab to admit but they are my favorites to find in tidepools 🌊🌿🐙🦑

slutty bat star 🌊🌿🐙🦑

I love finding a good wandering meatloaf 🌊🌿🐙🦑

10/10 would recommend bringing a dark UV light nighttime tidepooling 🌿🐙🦑🦀

nighttime king tidepooling!

found some sexy yellow-spotted millipedes amongst the redwoods 🌿

it's been a minute but the spring was bustling with great tidepooling! I found my first Olive's & Hilton's aeolid nudibranchs 🌊🌿🐙🦑🌎

🪸 Send me Nudis 🪸 Nudibranch dice! Inspired by sea slugs and my most recent diving trip! #dice #dnd #ttrpg

I hate all this. I just wanna play games, watch anime and look for invertebrates. Here, have a rainbow dendronotus nudibranch.

This is a nudibranch, or sea slug. I love finding them when I’m scuba diving and taking pictures of them as well. Always fun subjects for macro photography. If it’s Monday…it’s Macro Monday.

Some #nudibranch from 04/05! The new to me ones were the Stubby Dendronotid (first one) and the Hammerhead Doto, which I haven’t included here because this little dude is the size of a grain of rice and my camera just isn’t that good. Other three are Hopkins Rose, San Diego Dorid, and Opalescent.

A Hooded Nudibranch swims through the Salish Sea - Read more interesting things here: https://bit.ly/489Ls8D #nature #animals #natureisfuckinglit #awesome #amazing #trends#trend#trend #short

Take me back into the arms I love

absolutely disgusting to hear autistic people brushed with such broad strokes & he can keep autistics with high support needs out of his mouth

silly bee, that's not a real sunflower, it's my sunflower star model 🌊🐙🦑🌿🌎

I caught a pair of velella to show guests on our boat what they look like before they wash up & dry up on the beach, but I think the crew was even more obsessed because they even named them I released the velella back into the ocean at the end of the trip 🌊🐙🦑🌿🌎

while I love the invertebrates I find in the wild, this is my invertebrate at home having one of his no bones days (which is every day for this 17 y/o senior) 🐱🐈

while I love the invertebrates I find in the wild, this is my invertebrate at home having one of his no bones days (which is every day for this 17 y/o senior) 🐱🐈

✨💜 galaxsea slug 💜✨ We have some lore on the stream about sea slugs - they are actually alien creatures and some of them relocated to the ocean long ago. The ones still in space are galaxy slugs and live on asteroids lol #digitalart #seaslug #galaxyart #art #constellations #twitchstreamer

White lined dirona These guys feed on hydroids, bryozoans, crustaceans, ascidians, and snails. #nudibranch #whitelineddirona #pugetsound #pnwwildlife #washingtonwildlife #salishsea #uwmacrophotography #uwmacro #olympustg6 #wildlifephotography

Sea hares for day 17 of daily sketching :) #art #sketch #nature #doodle

A perfect day and a great turn-out of 40+ people for the Mumbles Seashore Safari yesterday led by Matt Green and Winter Dotto of Marine Matters. Huge thanks to them! Fab finds including a glamorous Nudibranch, baked bean sea squirts and native oysters! #Nudibranchs #Sponges #MarineLife #WTSWW

Make like a nudibranch and slooow down in our latest installment of Krill Waves Radio! 🎧 Settle with spectacular sea slugs as they sway to soothing lo-fi beats: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOeQ...

just a queenfisher doing queenfisher shit in Morro Bay 🪶📷

Here, take an octopus knitting my feelings for your Friday morning. Happy almost weekend 🐙🐡🦑

A colorful Dirona (Dirona picta) on the sand next to a California Sea Hare (Aplysia californica) #oceanlove #scuba #underwaterphotography #oceanlife #marinelife #nudibranch #seaslugs #invertebrates

A three-lined aeolid nudibranch (Orienthella trilineata) found last month during dockfouling in Morro Bay, CA. Perhaps 15 mm long! 🦀🦑📸OlympusTG6

#Nudibranch superpowers! I'm updating the blog on my website with tidepool meanderings, starting with nudibranchs. Here is my Monterey #tidepool favorite, Hopkin's Rose. It uptakes its color from its prey, Rosy Bryozoan. drewharvell.com/2025/03/22/f... #marinelife #invertebrates #nudivember

just did my first two scuba dives since 2017 and saw a cuttlefish and a ghost nudibranch (among many other things) here in northern Sulawesi - anyway I need to get back into this, it’s nice to just be concerned with colorful slugs www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLiB...

The @theguardian.com Invertebrate of the Year competition has nominated the mighty little tardigrade, AND my other favourite creature the nudibranch. Which gives me a reason to repost this incredible blog comparing nudibranches to David Bowie’s best outfits. www.tumblr.com/bowiebranchia

the absolute gayest chiton, ancient greek fashion had nothing on these mollusks iykyk 🌊🐙🦑🌿🌎

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Just tryna live my best #lowtidelife, getting out to the #tidepools when I can! Yesterday was big surf & a mediocre low tide, but still managed to find a good group of #nudibranchs & thoroughly enjoyed myself.

had a fabulous time tidepooling recently! found some new lifer nudibranch species! 🌊🐙🦑🌿🌎

echinodamn! look at these beauties! when I first lived in Monterey, it was 2015 & I had to watch sea star wasting syndrome wipe out our local ochre stars as well as other species of sea stars, but the ochre stars have slowly been recovering in Monterey from the devastation 🌊🐙🦑🌿🌎📷

everyone else: obsessing over the k pod & Frosty's pod of orcas in the bay lately me: freaking out over the recent algae bloom that brought with it albatrosses & sunfish to the coast, plus velellas! upwelling season is kicking off! 🌊🐙🦑🐟🪶🌿🌎📷