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Guest Blog 2 July 2009

By Nautilus Staff on July 2nd, 2009 in Archive

Saw lots of coral today all over the walls – orange, white, red, pink. There were also tons of nudibranchs. I got a picture today of a sea otter in the foreground, a whale spouting behind it and beautiful snowy mountains in the background. Where else can you see that. Robbie I saw a snail laying eggs in a circular […]

Tags bald eagles, Dog Pile, grunt sculpin, Humpback Whale, Icy Strait, Inian Island, red irish lords, sea otter, smooth velbet snails, soft coral, stellar sea lions, tufted puffins, tunicates, warbonnets

Incredible dive site guarded by stellar sealions

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Post date 2009-06-21
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By Nautilus Staff on June 21st, 2009 in Archive

Location: Inian Islands, Icy Strait, southeast Alaska. There is a potential dive site at Inian Island that I have been super keen to check out for a couple of years. It feels right. It looks right with a sheer wall plunging to 220 feet. And it is current swept. So today we kitted up and jumped in the water […]