2021-10-02 Diving Shingle Bay (Panda Access) - Pender Island, BC.

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A great dive spot on Pender Island access from Harpoon Rd.
Distance from car to water is 100 steps down a sloping trail to stairs down to the beach. Heading left along the cliff there are a series of reefs after swimming approx. 100 meters. Reefs usually end at a depth around 80ft.
These was my first sighting of Buffalo Sculpin and Giant Nudibranch (free swimming) at this site.

- Burrowing Brittle Star (Amphiodia periercta). Most of the star is burried with on arms protruding.
- Red Rock Crab (Cancer productus)
- Rough Patch Shrimp (Pandalus stenolepis)
- Leather Star (Dermasterias imbricata) with Orange Social Tunicates
- Red Rock Crab (Cancer productus)
- Red Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus)
- Buffalo Sculptin (Enophrys bison)
- Buffalo Sculptin (Enophrys bison)
- Buffalo Sculptin (Enophrys bison)
- Heath's Dorid (Geitodoris heathi)
- Copper Rockfish (Sebastes caurinus)
- Copper Rockfish (Sebastes caurinus)
- Red Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus)
- Blood Star (Hendricia leviuscula leviuscula) with Coonstripe Shrimp
- Buffalo Sculptin (Enophrys bison)
- Buffalo Sculptin (Enophrys bison)
- Buffalo Sculptin (Enophrys bison)
- Yellow-Edged Cadlina sp.
- Rough Patch Shrimp (Pandalus stenolepis) on unknown Chiton
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- Red Sea Urchin
- Sculpin sp
- Giant Nudibranch (Dendronotus iris)
- Gumboot Chiton
- Lined Chiton (Tonicella lineata) with Gray Brittle Star (Ophiura lutkeni)