fun dive with wthr4d

[BiteFactory]

Paul and I dove the OSU docks and had a good time. Good visibility.

Aside from the usual stars and anenomes
In the sand/mud bottom we saw a ton (a few hundred) of 2" long flatfish, baby flounder or something. We saw a number of clams with necks extended and "mouths" wide open drawing in water.

In the rocks under the dock we saw some cool things:
1 - white nudibranches, haven't seen these here before.
2 - I think we saw a Lewis' Moonsnail - well, we did see a huge snail with a cantelope sized shell atop a huge foot. Moon snails eat clams and there were a lot around. (http://www.scubapost.net/fieldguide/lewis-moon-snail)
3 - played with some crab

We didn't see the monkey faced eels that we were looking for. Rumoured to hang out in the rock crevases.

Paul - 31ft, 50F, 34 mins.

[BiteFactory]

That was a Lewis Moon Snail. It had one of those egg spiral cases right next to it too.

I guess they can be eaten! Found this page on the Oregon DFW website: http://www.dfw.state.or.us/mrp/shell.../moonsnail.asp

The clams and clam necks we saw were gaper clams: http://www.dfw.state.or.us/MRP/shell...boutgapers.asp

The ocean is too cool, new things just keep on coming.

[wthr4d]

You learn something new everyday! I thought that snail egg collar was scrap plastic. and MAN do gapers get BIG! those shellells that snail was eating were huge.

so next time I will take a game bag and clam rake.

John- Thanks for planning this out, I had a great time! stopped by Yaquina bay oysters on my way home and had a couple shooters for the road and a dozen smalls for Momma!

we definitely need to do this again. anyone who says there isn't anything good in Newport harbor doesn't know where to look.

Paul

[Deanrt]

Sounds like fun. Its been 8 or 10 years since i've been diving. Just reading about it sure brings back some memories.

[Medics-R-US]

uote=Deanrt;1991708]Sounds like fun. Its been 8 or 10 years since i've been diving. Just reading about it sure brings back some memories.[/quote]
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