{"id":8588,"date":"2019-07-08T02:03:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T18:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=8588"},"modified":"2019-07-10T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T03:38:00","slug":"marine-creatures-of-browning-pass-and-gods-pocket-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/marine-creatures-of-browning-pass-and-gods-pocket-2019.html","title":{"rendered":"Marine Creatures of Browning Pass and God’s Pocket 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

In early 2019 I returned with my cameras and dry suit to God’s Pocket, a tiny and remote diving lodge on Hurst Island near the top of Vancouver Island, for a few weeks of the world’s best cold-water diving. Damn it was great, I mean Really Great. I’ve been diving all over for almost 30 years, have seen many amazing things in the ocean, and Browning Pass is near the top.<\/p>\n

\"Hurst<\/a><\/p>\n

Hurst Island and Gods Pocket Provincial Park, aerial photo
\nImage ID: 35285<\/a>
\nLocation: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Gods<\/a><\/p>\n

Gods Pocket Dive Resort, Hurst Island
\nImage ID: 35410<\/a>
\nLocation: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

I was there for a week in 2018 with friend Richard Salas<\/a> and really enjoyed it. Under excellent and experienced new ownership as of early 2019, God’s Pocket Diving Resort<\/a> continues to be comfortable, peaceful, private and surrounded by beautiful country, all the while pampering guests with delicious food, starry skies and top-notch diving service. While the dive conditions require experience, training and appropriate equipment, the underwater scenery is unsurpassed and a rich reward for those who make the effort. Numerous lush, colorful and varied underwater reefs of Browning Pass<\/a> and the islands near the entrance to Queen Charlotte Strait are a photographer’s dream. I made some nice images in 2018<\/a> and decided to give it one more go, but this time invested two weeks due to the time and expense involved in just reaching Port Hardy and God’s Pocket. I spent about half my time trying to make expansive images that depict the beauty of Browning Pass reefs, and the other half focused on portraits of the myriad creatures that inhabit those reefs. This is the result of my portraiture efforts. (I’ll share reefscape images in a future post). Cheers, and thanks for looking!<\/p>\n

\"Red<\/a><\/p>\n

Red Irish Lord sculpinfish, Browning Pass, British Columbia
\nImage ID: 35256<\/a>
\nSpecies: Red Irish Lord<\/a>, Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Metridium<\/a><\/p>\n

Metridium and proliferating anemones cling to bull kelp. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
\nImage ID: 35257<\/a>
\nSpecies: Plumose Anemone<\/a>, Bull Kelp<\/a>, Metridium senile<\/i><\/a>, Nereocystis luetkeana<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Red<\/a><\/p>\n

Red Irish Lord eye detail, Browning Pass, British Columbia
\nImage ID: 35269<\/a>
\nSpecies: Red Irish Lord<\/a>, Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Tiny<\/a><\/p>\n

Tiny fish, unidentified, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
\nImage ID: 35270<\/a>
\nLocation: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Red<\/a><\/p>\n

Red Nudibranch, Dendronotus rufus, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
\nImage ID: 35271<\/a>
\nSpecies: Red Nudibranch<\/a>, Dendronotus rufus<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dendronotus<\/a><\/p>\n

Dendronotus iris swimming nudibranch, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
\nImage ID: 35275<\/a>
\nSpecies: Dendronotus iris<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

The Fish Eating Anemone Urticina piscivora, a large colorful anemone found on the rocky underwater reefs of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
\nImage ID: 35282<\/a>
\nSpecies: Fish-eating Anemone<\/a>, Urticina piscivora<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Moon<\/a><\/p>\n

Moon jelly, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Canada
\nImage ID: 35283<\/a>
\nSpecies: Moon jelly<\/a>, Aurelia aurita<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Barnacle<\/a><\/p>\n

Barnacle filtering food from passing ocean currents, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
\nImage ID: 35292<\/a>
\nLocation: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Metridium<\/a><\/p>\n

Metridium tentacle detail, Vancouver Island, Canada
\nImage ID: 35312<\/a>
\nSpecies: Plumose Anemone<\/a>, Metridium senile<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Starfish<\/a><\/p>\n

Starfish detail, sea star skin details, Vancouver Island, Canada
\nImage ID: 35313<\/a>
\nLocation: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Alabaster<\/a><\/p>\n

Alabaster Nudibranch, white-lined dirona, Dirona albolineata, Vancouver Island
\nImage ID: 35317<\/a>
\nSpecies: Alabaster Nudibranch<\/a>, White-Lined Dirona<\/a>, Dirona albolineata<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Hooded<\/a><\/p>\n

Hooded Nudibranch Melibe leonina swimming in mid water column, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Canada
\nImage ID: 35320<\/a>
\nSpecies: Hooded Nudibranch<\/a>, Melibe leonina<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Red<\/a><\/p>\n

Red Irish Lord sculpinfish, Browning Pass, British Columbia
\nImage ID: 35327<\/a>
\nSpecies: Red Irish Lord<\/a>, Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Clown<\/a><\/p>\n

Clown Nudibranch, Triopha catalinae, Browning Passage, Vancouver Island
\nImage ID: 35354<\/a>
\nSpecies: Clown Nudibranch<\/a>, Triopha catalinae<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Orange<\/a><\/p>\n

Orange Peel Nudibranch, Tochuina gigantea, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
\nImage ID: 35355<\/a>
\nSpecies: Orange Peel Nudibranch<\/a>, Tochuina Gigantea<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Urticina<\/a><\/p>\n

Urticina anemone mouth detail, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
\nImage ID: 35374<\/a>
\nSpecies: Fish-eating Anemone<\/a>, Urticina piscivora<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Split-branch<\/a><\/p>\n

Split-branch or split-plume featherduster worm, Schizobranchia insignis, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Image ID: 35380<\/a>
Species: Split-branch featherduster worm<\/a>, Schizobranchia insignis<\/i><\/a>
Location: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Rockfish,<\/a><\/p>\n

Rockfish, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Canada
\nImage ID: 35387<\/a>
\nLocation: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Red<\/a><\/p>\n

Red Irish Lord eye detail, Browning Pass, British Columbia
\nImage ID: 35448<\/a>
\nSpecies: Red Irish Lord<\/a>, Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Clown<\/a><\/p>\n

Clown Nudibranch, Triopha catalinae, Browning Passage, Vancouver Island
\nImage ID: 35450<\/a>
\nSpecies: Clown Nudibranch<\/a>, Triopha catalinae<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: British Columbia<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In early 2019 I returned with my cameras and dry suit to God’s Pocket, a tiny and remote diving lodge on Hurst Island near the top of Vancouver Island, for a few weeks of the world’s best cold-water diving. Damn it was great, I mean Really Great. I’ve been diving…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[368,64,123],"tags":[369,353,356,330],"class_list":{"0":"post-8588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-browning-pass","8":"category-canada","9":"category-underwater-photography","10":"tag-browning-pass","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-pacific","13":"tag-underwater"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}