Today I went to a site that was filled with weedy seadragons. Again, I must have come across at least 15-20 dragons and again nearly all were males with eggs on their tails. Here are a couple of my favorite dragon photos of the day.


Male weedy seadragon (Photo: Jeremy Brodt)


Male weedy seadragon (Photo: Jeremy Brodt)

As I was swimming along the pier I came across this school of globe fish.


Globefish school (Photo: Jeremy Brodt)

I was also pleasantly surprised when I looked up from having my heads in the weeds looking for seadragons to see this beatiful wedgenose skate swim by.


Skate (Photo: Jeremy Brodt)

Then I was surprised again when this very large (probably close to 7' long from tip to tail) smooth or black stingray swam by again.


Smooth stingray (Photo: Jeremy Brodt)

It was quite an exciting dive and I even went back for a night dive at the same spot to try to catch some sea dragon mating behavior which typically occurs right at sunset. We saw lots of dragons (and lots of juveniles that were likely 6-8 months old), but most of the adult males already had eggs. I did stumble upon one pair near the end of my dive, but they didn't come together to court before I had to get out of the water.

Hopefully tomorrow will yield another eventful sea dragon dive!

Cheers,
Jeremy

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