These nudis are very common on the docks where I moor my boat. This picture has the saturation punched up, but still fails to convey just how trippy they, and most other nudibranchs, look in person. The iridescence in the rhinophores and cerata is something that can be tricky to capture with imaging. Here is a different angle of the same species.
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Ask and ye shall receive! Giant nudibranch, Sinclair Inlet, Bremerton WA USA
Monterey sea lemon, Hood Canal WA USA
Still think it's cute! Thanks for the photo.
thx for sharing! we did some underwater photography shenanigans back in the 00's and wow, shooting pics underwater is so very different from shooting them above.. Wow.. Nature = amazing
Like this one from Red Sea, 2006! Made by my mom :)
I thought I was having a stroke during the middle section
You're not alocean in the universea.
This is deeply nerdy. I love it.
First you must bring him a shrubbery!
More nudibranch content please
OP will deliver.
I look at things like this, on our own planet, and my mind boggles at the thought of what alien species might look like
RIP Rosa :(
Wow shiny
Top tier puns throughout. Great work.