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@martyessen.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 2:27 PM

Marty’s photo of the day #5168: Of the many highlights of my Vancouver Island visit, the moments around the time I shot this photo were my favorite. We had pitched our tent at a remote campsite on the Johnstone Strait, and, like . . .

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#photography #sealife #orcas #nature

Marty’s photo of the day #5168: Of all the many highlights of Deb’s and my Vancouver Island visit, the moments around the time I shot this photo were my favorite. We had pitched our tent at a remote campsite on the Johnstone Strait, and, like the two previous mornings, I got up before sunrise hoping to photograph whales. On this final morning, I could hear orca whales breathing on the opposite side of the strait but couldn’t spot them. A half-hour later, the whales swam into view. They were heading for my side of the strait!

I was kneeling at the edge of a spit of rocky beach that the incoming tide was about to submerge. While orcas grabbing seals off Vancouver Island’s shores are extremely rare, when an orca headed directly toward me, I instinctively moved several steps back. That also helped my aim, as I was using an 800mm telephoto lens (which unlike a zoom lens, has a fixed focal length), and the whales were often too close to get into frame.

Because of the orca’s closeness, their brief time on the surface, and my telephoto lens, none of my really close shots turned out. Those views will remain in my head as wonderful memories. Today’s photo is one of my favorites, taken after I moved back from the edge of the water.

@elenasgarbossamd.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 11:36 AM

The main component of ocean plastic is abandoned fishing gear—and it traps animals.

The solution?

We can stop funding fishing, by not eating aquatic animals.

Better for our health, too.

#turtles #plastics #oceans #SaveTheOcean #pollution #fishing #seafood #fishes #FishFeel #sealife #vegan

@danaquarium.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 9:17 AM

Achado no litoral (Santos, SP, Brasil 🇧🇷) 𝘛𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 🌊🐚 #MarineLife #OceanLife #SeaLife #MarineBiology #Oceanography #Nature #Naturephotography #Photo #Photography #Bluesky

@markeydc.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 7:12 AM

@markeydc.bsky.social #original #ArtYear #art @bsky.art #Artshare #acrylic #watercolors #sealife #trending #turtles #fish #schools

@terumbudivers.com Sep 21, 2026, 12:52 AM

Let's go diving
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@mouthstache.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 11:30 PM

#art #sketch #sealife #marine #octopus #animal #tentacles

Octopus number 4. It's moving from right to left with tentacles reaching out and out as it moves.

@svpgames.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 11:11 PM

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@terumbudivers.com Sep 20, 2026, 8:44 PM

A Lionfish
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a nice brown fish with beautiful fins, scuba diving lombok gili insdonesia

@coloringscape.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 6:34 PM

Before & after: Gentle Octopus Coloring Page ✨
Left = blank outline · Right = auto-colored preview

#coloringpage #ocean #sealife #printable

Gentle Octopus Coloring Page — free printable coloring page

@terumbudivers.com Sep 20, 2026, 6:22 PM

Coral reef from the boat
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a shallow coral reef from a boat, scuba diving lombok gili insdonesia

@terumbudivers.com Sep 20, 2026, 3:54 PM

A cute small cuttlefish
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a small dark purple cuttlefish on a sandy bottom, scuba diving lombok gili insdonesia

@gracietarball.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 10:30 AM

4,500 animals died across eight English Sea Life locations in a single year, prompting the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) to review its corporate sponsorship deal. Great Yarmouth facility: 33% mortality rate, with 812 out of 2,293 animals perishing... www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl... #boycott #sealife

@kellyjarviswriter.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 9:14 AM

Selkie Sunday (sleep in) 💤🦭

Photo by Karl Ramsdell

kellyjarviswriter.com/selkie-moon

#selkiesunday #SelkieMoon #sealife #harborseal #books

@terumbudivers.com Sep 20, 2026, 2:22 AM

Green turtle is swimming
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@terumbudivers.com Sep 19, 2026, 8:44 PM

Pipefish
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #singaporedivers #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #fish #pipefish

a grey long fish, scuba dive lombok gili indonesia

@simplyonemore.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 7:52 PM

Day 11 - Heart shape
Corculum Cardissa is entirely adapted to its symbiotic relationship with microscopic algae. The shell contains pigment-free areas that transmit and scatter sunlight into the shell's interior for photosynthesis.

#SciArtSeptember #SciArt #SciComm 🐡 #illustration #sealife #nature

@terumbudivers.com Sep 19, 2026, 6:22 PM

A coral
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a brown coral like a flower, scuba dive lombok gili indonesia

@terumbudivers.com Sep 19, 2026, 3:58 PM

Cleaning position
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@martyessen.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 3:25 PM

Marty’s photo of the day #5166: Deb and I have traveled all seven continents looking for rare and interesting wildlife and have seen creatures that look like they should be from another planet. These pelagic gooseneck barnacles, which . . .

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#photography #sealife #nature

Marty’s photo of the day #5166: Deb and I have traveled all seven continents looking for rare and interesting wildlife and have seen creatures that look like they should be from another planet. These pelagic gooseneck barnacles, which Deb found as we were walking a beach on Vancouver Island, are the strangest creatures we’ve ever seen. It was like they were one part leech, one part clam, and one part creature from a science-fiction movie. Then, when I knelt down to photograph them, they opened their shells and waved their feathery cirri! I immediately thought “Little Shop of Horrors.”

Pelagic gooseneck barnacles aren’t rare, but this colony was out of place. They are filter feeders that attach themselves to floating items like the piece of driftwood this one was on. They are typically found in tropical and subtropical seas worldwide, but, like this colony, are sometimes carried into colder seas by currents. Around Vancouver Island they could survive, but it would be too cold for them to reproduce.

One more thing: In medieval times, people thought these barnacles turned into barnacle geese because no one knew where the geese migrated.

@terumbudivers.com Sep 19, 2026, 8:16 AM

Volcano Rinjani
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