Monday, October 26, 2009

#9: A new seadragon location with stargazers, leaffish and cuttlefish

Today I dove at a new location to see seadragons. Although, near the beginning of our dive we came across a stargazer buried in the sand.

Stargazer (Photo: Jeremy Brodt)

And this Forster's leaffish hidden in the weeds.

Leaffish (Photo: Jeremy Brodt)

Then we stumbled upon more weedy seadragons

We did another dive just before sunset and saw lots of seadragons. Nearly all the males we saw had eggs on their tails and there were lots of juveniles that appeared to be popping out of the weeds.

In addition to all the dragons I got lucky and caught this large cuttlefish on video as it was swimming by.

Cheers,
Jeremy

Labels: cuttlefish, Jeremy Brodt, leaffish, seadragon, Seadragons2009, stargazer, video

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