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(Fish Eating Red Anemone Urticina piscivora among brittle stars near Nifty Rock.)

New Years 2018 at San Miguel Island, CA

Images and text by Ken Ashman © Copyrighted. All rights reserved.

Each year there is a New Year's Limited Load 3-day trip on the Vision to the Northern Channel Islands, out of Santa Barbara, CA. The 2018 New Year's trip was my first, and it was amazing! We had an awesome group of people on the boat, and I came up with some nice underwater images.

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Blue Rockfish
at Wilson's Rock

Sebastes mystinus



NYE Moonrise over San Miguel

Moonrise

The weather and water conditions on the trip were nothing short of spectacular. We were able to dive some of the best sites San Miguel has to offer, including Wilson's Rock and Wyckoff Ledge.

I shot all these images with a 12-24mm DX Nikkor lens and a single Inon Z240 strobe.


12 (large) Red Abalone
at Tyler Bight
Haliotis rufescens
Red Abalone

Rockfish at Wyckoff Ledge
Wyckoff Ledge

Brittle Stars at Cuyler
Brittle Stars

Giant perennial kelp
Macrocystis pyrifera
Giant perennial kelp

California Strawberry Anemones
Corynactis californica
Strawberry Anemones

Kelp at Wyckoff Ledge
Kelp at Wyckoff Ledge

Rockfish in kelp
Rockfish

Green Anemone
at Tyler Bight
Anthopleura xanthogrammica
Green Anemone

Sunbeams thru kelp
Kelp in sunbeams

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