6/16/2012 - Conditions Improving Around Palos Verdes

With the swells finally subsiding, we hit Buchanan's Reef off Marineland this morning. Visibility was only twelve feet, but the water has warmed up to 60° and the murk and jelly parts in the mid water have begun to disappear.
We found the usual assortment of nudibranchs and rockfish, as well as a large school of mackerel in the shallow water.

Cabezon, Scorpaenichthys marmoratus

Featherduster worm, Eudistylia polymorpha

Octocoral, Alcyonium rudyi with Cadlina luteomarginata

Diaulula sandiegensis

Flabellina trilineata

Flabellina iodinea

Anisdoris nobilis

Cuthona divae

Triopha catalinae

Cadlina flavomaculata

Facelina stearnsi

Hermissenda crassicornis