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I hope so. We had something bad happen all along the west coast of North America in the last two years. Some of the reefs I dive from Southern California to British Columbia, Canada are devoid of life compared to what they were two years ago. One of my local reefs had thousands of nudis as well as juvenile rockfish, fringeheads and octopus. Lately we're lucky to find a dozen nudis and one or two octopus.
In some areas of California the kelp has disappeared. Last summer Catalina Island experienced tropical water temperatures that wiped out kelp in many areas. We haven't had any jellies or salps floating through our water in more than two years. We used to have a soup of jellies in the offshore waters every winter.
 
Camera: Sealife Micro 2.0 Pro 1500
Location: Watumu, Kenya
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I hope so. We had something bad happen all along the west coast of North America in the last two years. Some of the reefs I dive from Southern California to British Columbia, Canada are devoid of life compared to what they were two years ago. One of my local reefs had thousands of nudis as well as juvenile rockfish, fringeheads and octopus. Lately we're lucky to find a dozen nudis and one or two octopus.
In some areas of California the kelp has disappeared. Last summer Catalina Island experienced tropical water temperatures that wiped out kelp in many areas. We haven't had any jellies or salps floating through our water in more than two years. We used to have a soup of jellies in the offshore waters every winter.
I have a friend who has told me that we will never see below 40° here in S. Florida again. She is into plants and gardening and stuff. She claims that we are now solidly in Zone 11 (a designation for plants, frost etc.), and the line moves 10 miles north each year. I've always thought we were in Zone 10B. Keys were the only place in the US in Zone 11.
Wonder if it's true.
 
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Painted Elysia
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Engel's Flabellina
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Orange-Spotted Nanuca
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So far this year...

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Spanish Shawl, Flabellina iodinia

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Flabellina trilineata

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Mating pair of Polycera tricolor

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Diaulula sandiegensis

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Juvenile Polycera atra and friend

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Navanax inermis

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Cadlina flavomaculata

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Hermissenda opalescens
 
Here's a few from Hornby Island (BC) in January:

Flabellina trophina (I think). There were about a dozen of these roaming around on the sand at about 50 fsw. I can't imagine why - surely there's no food for them there?
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Acanthodoris nanaimoensis (Nanaimo dorid)
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Phyllaplysia taylori (Taylor's sea hare). Very small - a far cry from my local giant California sea hares.
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Doris odhneri
. About 5 inches long, pure white and a lovely texture too. At last, an easy-to-spot nudi!
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My nudi year is off to a good start!
 
from our recent trips, padang bai, Bali

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PC290830.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr

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P1010502.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr

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P1010557.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr

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P1010530.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr

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Nudi P Bai by Mayang-24.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr

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Nudi P Bai by Mayang-26.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr

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PC280718.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr

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PC280724.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr

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PC280733.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr

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PC290829.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr

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Nudi P Bai by Mayang-11.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr

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Nudi P Bai by Mayang-14.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr
 

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