This last weekend had the last decent low tides of the summer and so I returned to the ferry dock one last time. I bought new chest waders and got to test them out and I’m only sorry I didn’t get them sooner. They made a huge difference to my ability to focus on nudibranchs instead of not getting wet. Puget Sound is very cold and standing in the water for a couple hours can really be unpleasant, especially if clothes get wet, so it was nice to stay dry and mostly warm.
The tide was not quite a minus two, but with my waders, I was able to fearlessly get out into the water and search. I found hundreds of Thick-horned nudibranchs, a number of Frosted (Dirona albolineata) and Golden Dironas (D. pellucida), several Monterey Dorids (Doris montereyensis) and many Red-fingered Coryphellas (Coryphella verrucosa).
