British Columbia
North American Publishers: Greystone Books ( Vancouver ); University of Washington Press (Seattle)
European Publishers: Saraband (UK); Frederking & Thaler (Germany)
Lion's Mane Jellyfish with Bull Kelp
Lion's Mane Jellyfish with Blue Rockfish
Black Rockfish School
Sockeye Salmon in the Adams River
A male sockeye salmon nearing his final destination before spawning
I am completely surrounded by huge Steller sea lions
A lion's mane jellyfish with feather boa kelp
A giant dendronotid nudibranch swimming in mid-water
Hooded Nudibranchs on Kelp
Hooded Nudibranchs
Northern Kelp Crab
Moon Jellyfish
Fried Egg Jellyfish
Red-eye Medusa
Seaweeds at Low Tide
Rose Anemone
Stubby Squid
Jellyfish at the surface in Browning Pass
A swarm of cross jellyfish with surface debris
Whitesided dolphins
A harbor seal studies its own reflection in the dome port of my camera housing
The mouth of a fish-eating anemone, with surrounding tentacles
The Irish lord sculpin can change color to blend with its surroundings
Wolf eel
Irish lord sculpin with plumose anemones
China rockfish, a common bottom-dweller in Pacific Northwest coastal waters
A juvenile wolf-eel is more colorful than the adult
The opalescent nudibranch is a predatory mollusk with no shell.
Flower-like sea anemones and red soft coral carpet the floor of a kelp forest
A northern kelp crab
Crimson sea anemone
A cluster of large gooseneck barnacles at Nakwakto Rapids
Gooseneck barnacles, Nakwakto Rapids, British Columbia
Hooded nudibranchs on bull kelp
The helmet crab's exoskeleton is covered with sensitive bristles
Opalescent nudibranchs and ascidians
Giant plumose anemones with kelp greenling
Scalyhead sculpin
An adult king crab with barnacle-encrusted shell
An aggregation of dogwinkle snails laying eggs
Ochre sea stars prey upon mussels just below the surface in the intertidal zone
The grunt sculpin is a small fish that "walks" on the bottom using its pectoral fins.
There are more than fifty species of sea stars in British Columbia's coastal waters
Mosshead warbonnet
The giant Pacific octopus is the world's largest.
Orange sea pens on a sandy bottom
A fried egg jellyfish swimming at the surface
Undersea forests of bull kelp are found along the Pacific Northwest coast.
Black rockfish and old growth kelp
A Steller sea lion may weigh as much as one ton
Two Steller sea lions settling a dispute
Keeping one eye on me, a harbor seal rubs its back
A graceful crab attempting to open up a clam for dinner
Barnacles, Mussels and Anemones
Whitesided dolphins riding the bow wave of our ship
The decorated warbonnet is a secretive fish with an eel-like body
Basket stars capture drifting plankton with their branching arms
Migrating sockeye salmon in the Adams River at night