Pacific Northwest Marine Life photos, Natural History Photography

Anemones are found in abundance on a spectacular British Columbia underwater reef, rich with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 35339

Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada, Metridium farcimen

Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada.
Species: Giant plumose anemone, Metridium farcimen
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 35344

Plumose Anemone, Metridium farcimen, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Metridium farcimen

Plumose Anemone, Metridium farcimen, Hornby Island, British Columbia.
Species: Giant plumose anemone, Metridium farcimen
Location: Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 32810

Colorful starfish cling to submarine rocks, on the subtidal reef, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 34336

Spotted Leopard Dorid, Diaulula odonoghuei, Vancouver Island, Diaulula odonoghuei

Spotted Leopard Dorid, Diaulula odonoghuei, Vancouver Island.
Species: Spotted leopard dorid, Diaulula odonoghuei
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 34338

Beautiful Anemone on Rocky Reef near Vancouver Island, Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada.
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 34340

White plumose anemones Metridium senile with purple sponge and barnacle, Vancouver Island.
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 34341

The Fish Eating Anemone Urticina piscivora, a large colorful anemone found on the rocky underwater reefs of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Species: Fish-eating anemone, Urticina piscivora
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 34342

Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada.
Species: Giant plumose anemone, Metridium farcimen
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 34344

Hooded Nudibranch Melibe leonina on kelp and rocky reef, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Canada, Melibe leonina

Hooded Nudibranch Melibe leonina on kelp and rocky reef, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Canada.
Species: Hooded nudibranch, Melibe leonina
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 34353

Barnacle filtering food from passing ocean currents, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 35292

Starfish detail, sea star skin details, Vancouver Island, Canada.
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 35313

Tiny fish, unidentified, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 35315

Alabaster Nudibranch, white-lined dirona, Dirona albolineata, Vancouver Island, Dirona albolineata

Alabaster Nudibranch, white-lined dirona, Dirona albolineata, Vancouver Island.
Species: Alabaster nudibranch, White-lined dirona, Dirona albolineata
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 35317

Clown Nudibranch, Triopha catalinae, Browning Passage, Vancouver Island, Triopha catalinae

Clown Nudibranch, Triopha catalinae, Browning Passage, Vancouver Island.
Species: Clown nudibranch, Triopha catalinae
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 35318

Ophiodon elongatus, Lingcod, Hornby Island, Canada.
Location: Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 32820

Seymour Narrows with strong tidal currents. Between Vancouver Island and Quadra Island, Seymour Narrows is about 750 meters wide and has currents reaching 15 knots. Aerial photo.
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 34466
Panorama dimensions: 5111 x 10075

A school of sockeye salmon, swimming up the Adams River to spawn, where they will lay eggs and die, Oncorhynchus nerka, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada

A school of sockeye salmon, swimming up the Adams River to spawn, where they will lay eggs and die.
Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka
Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 26146

A sockeye salmon swims in the shallows of the Adams River, with the surrounding forest visible in this split-level over-under photograph, Oncorhynchus nerka, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada

A sockeye salmon swims in the shallows of the Adams River, with the surrounding forest visible in this split-level over-under photograph.
Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka
Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 26148

Selfie with Steller sea lion underwater, Norris Rocks, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada, Eumetopias jubatus

Selfie with Steller sea lion underwater, Norris Rocks, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Species: Steller sea lion, Eumetopias jubatus
Location: Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 32684

Hooded Nudibranch Melibe leonina swimming in mid water column, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Canada, Melibe leonina

Hooded Nudibranch Melibe leonina swimming in mid water column, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Canada.
Species: Hooded nudibranch, Melibe leonina
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 35320

Two male sockeye salmon, swimming together against the current of the Adams River. After four years of life and two migrations of the Fraser and Adams Rivers, they will soon fertilize a female's eggs and then die.
Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka
Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 26163

Carcasses of dead sockeye salmon, line the edge of the Adams River. These salmon have already completed their spawning and have died, while other salmon are still swimming upstream and have yet to lay their eggs.
Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka
Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 26154

Sockeye salmon, swim upstream in the Adams River, traveling to reach the place where they hatched four years earlier in order to spawn a new generation of salmon eggs.
Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka
Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 26155

Colorful reef scene on Vancouver Island, known for its underwater landscapes teeming with rich invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Species: Giant plumose anemone, Metridium farcimen
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 35348

Bull kelp forest near Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada, Nereocystis luetkeana

Bull kelp forest near Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada.
Species: Bull kelp, Nereocystis luetkeana
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 35393

White metridium anemones fed by strong ocean currents, cover a cold water reef teeming with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Metridium senile

White metridium anemones fed by strong ocean currents, cover a cold water reef teeming with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Species: Plumose anemone, Metridium senile
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 35397

Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada.
Species: Giant plumose anemone, Metridium farcimen
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 35409

Bull kelp forest near Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada.
Species: Bull kelp, Nereocystis luetkeana
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 35411

Purple sponge with white and orange metridium anemones, below bull kelp forest, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Nereocystis luetkeana

Purple sponge with white and orange metridium anemones, below bull kelp forest, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Species: Bull kelp, Nereocystis luetkeana
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 34347