A photo of a large Palau Golden Jelly, taken from below, with blue sky and puffy clouds in the background. Not quite a Snell’s window photo, but pretty close.

A photo of a large Palau Golden Jelly, taken from below and off to the left the jelly has a sizeable bell and eight frilled oral arms (instead of tentacles) that are a similar length to the bell. The sunlight is mostly illuminating the translucent bell.

A photo of a large Palau Golden Jellyfish taken from behind and off to the left. The jelly has a sizeable bell and eight frilled oral arms (instead of tentacles) that are a similar length to the bell. The sunlight is illuminating the translucent bell as well as the top oral arms giving the jelly a golden hue.

A photo of the bell of a large Palau Golden Jellyfish in the foreground and a small one off to the left. The jelly has a sizeable bell that the sunlight is illuminating from behind, highlighting the x-shaped cross section of its oral disc.

Palau’s Golden Jellies may not be blooming at the moment, but they are still an absolute delight. #jellyfishlake #palaujellyfishlake #palau #MarineLife #snorkelling

A weedy sea dragon drifts along above a sandy bottom with various seaweed in the background.

A male weedy sea dragon, about 30cm long, shown from the side. It has a large patch of old eggs below its tail and they are becoming encrusted in algae. The dragon itself is yellow and purple with darker areas around the edges and white/yellow spots throughout.

A closeup of a weedy sea dragon’s head in profile. It’s purple, brown and yellow with spots throughout.

Fun day poking around with a bunch of weedy sea dragons. Lucky me! #WeedySeaDragon #MarineLife #UnderwaterPhotography #PortseaPier

Two divers swim away in the distance while the foreground is dominated by large plates of coral in muted colours.

A diver swims along to the left of a small bommie covered in different kinds of coral.

A photos from above of a diver swimming to the left of a large bommie of corals in muted colours.

Good times roaming around the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea last week. #UnderwaterPhotography #GBR #scubadiving

May we all find a few moments of carefree ease, just like this wee hooded nudibranch. #underwater #VancouverIsland #UWphoto

A white-lined dirona nudibranch sits against a bed of brownish seaweed. It’s largely translucent with large, wide and flat cerata.

Frosted nudi working its best runway pose. #nudibranch #UnderwaterPhotography #VancouverIsland 🦑

a white-and-orange-tipped nudibranch shows off its translucent cerata as it wafts in the current.

I can't get enough of these sweet white-and-orange-tipped nudibranch lovelies these days. #nudibranch #UnderwaterPhotography #VancouverIsland 🦑

A pinkish painted anemone takes centre stage while a white plumose anemone hangs in from the top of the frame. Two purple sea stars site to the right of the painted anemone and a kelp crab stands on one of the sea stars.

I was so enamoured with the painted anemone that I didn’t even notice the cute little kelp crab sitting on the sea star when I snapped this photo. #UnderwaterPhotography #anemone #VancouverIsland 🦑

A white-and-orange-tipped nudibranch shows off its delicate cerata as it sits on a piling.

Lucky to spot this sweet white-and-orange-tipped nudibranch on a nearby ferry piling yesterday. They're dreamy-looking. #UnderwaterPhotography #nudibranch #MarineLife #VancouverIsland

Sadly, that top part in front of the rhinophores is too blown out to recover any of the highlights, I think. You could try in LR but would probably just get a muddy grey result (at least that's been my experience with similar shots).

Terrific shots!

Fun to see out and about!

LOL - totally pulling off the look! :-)

Mine too!

A splendid toadfish, blue-grey with black stripes and yellow highlights peeks out from underneath a coral outcrop.

Cozumel's splendid toadfish are so delightfully weird. #UnderwaterPhotography #MarineLife #scuba

A close-up view of the right eye and right profile mouth of a small porcupinefish resting on a reef.

Honestly, I could gaze into porcupinefish eyes for all of eternity. #marinelife #scuba #cozumel #underwaterphotography

#addDiving

What a cutie!

Total cutie - great shot!

Totally! I think it was @mikerdiver.bsky.social who mentioned it originally, so hat tip to MikeR :-)

Great capture of so much abundance. I often get focused on zooming in on the cool little stuff. Thanks for the reminder to soak in the big picture from time to time :-)

Wonderful set, especially that middle one!

A small, yellow Monterey dorid sits perched atop a thin blade of seaweed.

Who cares about the return of orca salmon hats -- this little Monterey dorid is trying to revive the lost art of flagpole sitting and I'm here for it! #UnderwaterPhotography #Nudibranch #VancouverIsland 🦑

Lovely, and what anemone wouldn't want to hitchhike with that cuteness :-)

Looks like a sweet setup -- enjoy!

The Lewis's are the biggest moon snails and iNaturalist tells me that the shell can grow to 14cm. These ones were about 8cm for the shell and then the foot made the total length probably more like 15-18cm. Didn't catch either of them feasting but still fun to watch!

Thanks Sonja -- fun to see them out and about :-)

A Lewis's moon snail crawls along the bottom of the sea floor, its foot about three times the size of its shell. It has a sizeable siphon on the front left of where it sucks in water. There are also two visible tentacles poking out from its head.

A front view of a purplish Lewis's moon snail with a large shell behind. the shell has some mint green shaded colouring on it.

Moon snails on the march today at Thomson Cove in the #SaanichInlet #UnderwaterPhotography 🦑

Well done on nailing the focus on there. Sad about the bottle but they are cuties!

Cryptic teardrop crab, perhaps?

It was such a fun find!