Ebb and Flow Adventures

This is what I describe to guests when talking about kelp forests. I believe they are more diverse than coral reefs in the tropics.

Rocks of pink.
Ocean of green.
Your 💙

Most of the fish in this image, living in the Bull Kelp canopy, are juvenile Yellowtail Rockfish.

Anemones are Giant Plumose Anemones (white) and Proliferating Anemones (small, pink).

Encrusting coralline algae species cover the rocks where you will also see Blue Turban marine snails, Giant Acorn Barnacles, and Green Urchins.

A reminder that all these photos / efforts are aimed at . . . . when you close your eyes and think of this dark Ocean, that you see images like this. May we act knowing that it is the dark, current-rich Oceans that have more life.

I photographed this community on August 29, 2021 in Kwakwaka’wakw Territory near northeast Vancouver Island ©Jackie Hildering; The Marine Detective.

Can you dig it? They can dig it!
Tufted puffins are master excavators, experts in the art of digging. Using their feet and sometimes beaks, tufted puffins dig out some rather impressive nesting burrows. Up to five feet deep, often with a bend, and sometimes featuring side channels, these burrows offer a safe respite for the puffins’ eggs and chicks. Now, that’s something we can dig. 😄

📷 Tufted puffins at their burrows by Ian Shive/USFWS

The Fish that Fed Your Fish - Sitka Salmon Shares Every spring in Sitka the water turns a pearly aquamarine-blue and becomes foamy with milt (fish s***m). Streamers of herring spawn envelope inlets like topographical lines circling the outer coast of the western edge of the world. Locals tie a float to hemlock tree boughs with rope and leave the br...