Ken Bondy
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Morro Bay 10/26
After two weeks of industry association meetings, including 8 days in Puerto Rico, and a week with fires all around us (everything is OK), I
desperately needed a pier dive fix. It was a day for fringeheads, including a VERY mellow one-spot in a recently discarded Parrot Bay rum bottle:
Tube anemone:
A sober one:
Clown nudibranch Triopha catalinae:
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Wonderful photos !!
And I understand - diving can be a great stress relief.
Get under water and the world above dissappears from your mind.
Thanks Ken !!
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Wonderful shots---A few days ago I would have been happy to join you just to get away from the smoke and fire............And I don't even dive.
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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Pretty good viz for Morbid Bay.
I used to enjoy diving the power plant outlet, warm water and a free ride!
I like Port San Luis for halibut.
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amir
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Fantastic as always, Ken! Those creatures were as desperately waiting to be photographed as you were desperate to get down there...
This time I checked this thread during our vacation in Portland, Oregon, so I got to show your pictures to the rest of our family, and they all agree:
You are a genius with your camera!
Gracias.
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Bob H
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Ken, again... outstanding images. Many of your photos would make for excellent jigsaw puzzles, no? Wow!
Bob H
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ooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh.
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Skipjack Joe
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I needed a fix
I'm glad you're back, Ken. I missed your images about as much as you missed your dives. They came with such regularity.
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Paulina
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Ken,
We're ready for a M.B. coffee fix the next time you're in town. Give us a call!
P y D
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toneart
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Thank you once more, Ken, for bringing the fabulous undersea world to our computers. Some of those creatures are never seen by most of us. Brilliant
camera work!
What is the name of that thing in the bottle? I googled one-spot but it didn't show up there. Is it a fish, a mollusk, an eel? How does it get into
such a tight space. I'm fairly certain it didn't grow that bottle. Does it back in or is it small enough to swim in and turn around.
I guess I'm hung up on the minutia of logistics. 
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Ken Bondy
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Thank you all for the kind words. toneart the thing in the bottle is a fish, common name one-spot fringehead, scientific name Neoclinus uninotatus.
I have seen them enter their lairs (bottles, tubes, pipes, etc.) both forward and backwards. It's quite a sight to see them back in, but they can do
it. Looks like this one has just about overgrown its rum bottle and will soon need to look for a larger home. Paulina y Dern, next scheduled MB trip
is November 28 and 29 with Gary. Hope to see you guys then.
Saludos,
++Ken++
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tortuga
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Hello Ken
Ken ,
No doudt the camera you use is probably high end . Can you recommend an underwater camera or case / camera set up that would be affordible and
sutible for snorkling . Thanks , you do have awesome pictures.
Tortuga 
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Outstanding as usual. I always look forward to seeing your work.
BajaBuzz
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I think that first fringehead has class, choosing a Parrot Bay rum bottle for his home.
Thanks, Ken, for feeling the need to dive and for sharing your dive with us.
Nena
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
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Ken Bondy
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tortuga - I have seen outstanding underwater photos made with (relatively) inexpensive point and shoot digital cameras. I have to admit I don't know
much about them, other than the fact that you can get good results with them snorkeling or on scuba. I would suggest that you take a look at this
Ikelite website:
http://www.ikelite.com/web_pages/1digital.html
Ikelite makes affordable and reliable housings for virtually all of the available P&S cameras. If you have a digital P&S camera you might
want to put it in an Ikelite housing. In any event you can get a lot of information from this Ikelite website. I wish I could help more
Buena suerte,
++Ken++
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Ken Bondy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Natalie Ann
I think that first fringehead has class, choosing a Parrot Bay rum bottle for his home.
Thanks, Ken, for feeling the need to dive and for sharing your dive with us.
Nena |
Thanks Nena . He was unusually mellow and cooperative. There must have been a
little rum left when that bottle was chucked off the pier.
++Ken++
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Ken,
I've penciled you and Gary on our calendar. I'll u2u you when the time draws closer.
See you then!
P y D
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toneart
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Ken,
You may have to go back later and liberate that one-spot fringehead from his rum bottle home if he gets any bigger. 
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