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Maggie @maggieleithead.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Palau’s Golden Jellies may not be blooming at the moment, but they are still an absolute delight. #jellyfishlake #palaujellyfishlake #palau #MarineLife #snorkelling

A photo of a large Palau Golden Jelly, taken from below, with blue sky and puffy clouds in the background. Not quite a Snell’s window photo, but pretty close.

A photo of a large Palau Golden Jelly, taken from below and off to the left the jelly has a sizeable bell and eight frilled oral arms (instead of tentacles) that are a similar length to the bell. The sunlight is mostly illuminating the translucent bell.

A photo of a large Palau Golden Jellyfish taken from behind and off to the left. The jelly has a sizeable bell and eight frilled oral arms (instead of tentacles) that are a similar length to the bell. The sunlight is illuminating the translucent bell as well as the top oral arms giving the jelly a golden hue.

A photo of the bell of a large Palau Golden Jellyfish in the foreground and a small one off to the left. The jelly has a sizeable bell that the sunlight is illuminating from behind, highlighting the x-shaped cross section of its oral disc.

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Maggie @maggieleithead.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Good times roaming around the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea last week. #UnderwaterPhotography #GBR #scubadiving

Two divers swim away in the distance while the foreground is dominated by large plates of coral in muted colours.

A diver swims along to the left of a small bommie covered in different kinds of coral.

A photos from above of a diver swimming to the left of a large bommie of corals in muted colours.

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Maggie @maggieleithead.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

May we all find a few moments of carefree ease, just like this wee hooded nudibranch. #underwater #VancouverIsland #UWphoto

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Maggie @maggieleithead.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I can't get enough of these sweet white-and-orange-tipped nudibranch lovelies these days. #nudibranch #UnderwaterPhotography #VancouverIsland 🦑

a white-and-orange-tipped nudibranch shows off its translucent cerata as it wafts in the current.

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Maggie @maggieleithead.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I was so enamoured with the painted anemone that I didn’t even notice the cute little kelp crab sitting on the sea star when I snapped this photo. #UnderwaterPhotography #anemone #VancouverIsland 🦑

A pinkish painted anemone takes centre stage while a white plumose anemone hangs in from the top of the frame. Two purple sea stars site to the right of the painted anemone and a kelp crab stands on one of the sea stars.

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Maggie @maggieleithead.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Lucky to spot this sweet white-and-orange-tipped nudibranch on a nearby ferry piling yesterday. They're dreamy-looking. #UnderwaterPhotography #nudibranch #MarineLife #VancouverIsland

A white-and-orange-tipped nudibranch shows off its delicate cerata as it sits on a piling.

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Maggie @maggieleithead.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Cozumel's splendid toadfish are so delightfully weird. #UnderwaterPhotography #MarineLife #scuba

A splendid toadfish, blue-grey with black stripes and yellow highlights peeks out from underneath a coral outcrop.

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Maggie @maggieleithead.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Honestly, I could gaze into porcupinefish eyes for all of eternity. #marinelife #scuba #cozumel #underwaterphotography

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Maggie @maggieleithead.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Who cares about the return of orca salmon hats -- this little Monterey dorid is trying to revive the lost art of flagpole sitting and I'm here for it! #UnderwaterPhotography #Nudibranch #VancouverIsland 🦑

A small, yellow Monterey dorid sits perched atop a thin blade of seaweed.

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Maggie @maggieleithead.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Moon snails on the march today at Thomson Cove in the #SaanichInlet #UnderwaterPhotography 🦑

A Lewis's moon snail crawls along the bottom of the sea floor, its foot about three times the size of its shell. It has a sizeable siphon on the front left of where it sucks in water. There are also two visible tentacles poking out from its head.

A front view of a purplish Lewis's moon snail with a large shell behind. the shell has some mint green shaded colouring on it.

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Maggie @maggieleithead.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Sweet kelp crab chowing down on a fried egg jelly. Nom nom! #UnderwaterPhotography #Crustmas 🦑

A small orangey-green kelp crab uses its claws to eat parts of a nearby fried egg jellyfish. There’s also a purple sea star in the background.

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Maggie @maggieleithead.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Delightful little dire whelk goodness. #UnderwaterPhotography 🦑

A white spotted dire whelk is seen beneath its small purple shell

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Maggie @maggieleithead.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Oh goodie, the retired generals and orthopaedic surgeons have arrived already. Has anyone started a loverboy block list yet?

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Maggie @maggieleithead.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Monterey dorid central this morning at Setchell in the Saanich Inlet. Yay lemons! #nudibranch #UnderwaterPhotogtaphy 🦑

A cute yellow Monterey dorid showing its brown tipped rhinophores

Two yellow Monterey dorids tucked up beside each other with two legs of a nearby leather star reaching toward them.

A plump yellow Monterey dorid showing its two rhinophores up front and its brachial plum tufting up in the back.

Two yellow Monterey dorids snuggled up while a nearby leather star paws its way along the top mud branch.

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Maggie @maggieleithead.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Today's #snorkel around Thompson Cove in the Saanich Inlet. Lovely #nudibranch and #SeaSlug , as well as loads of red tube worms. #UnderwaterPhotography #MarineLife #VancouverIsland

White berthella, a slightly translucent white sidegill sea slug that’s covered in small white bumps.

Red-trumpet calcereous tubeworm shows its long curving white tube body with a red end that flares out like a trumpet. The worm’s red fan-shaped tentacles stick out from the trumpet end.

A very tiny shag rug nudibranch, about the size of a thumbnail. It’s a sort of cream colour with brownish ends on its soft looking cerata outgrowths.

A shag rug nudibranch shown from the front and above. It’s cream coloured with darker grey dorsal cerata and rhinophores, as well as translucent oral tentacles. Basically it looks like a grubby shag rug from the 1970s.

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Maggie @maggieleithead.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Bumped into a sweet hooded nudibranch this afternoon on a very crappy vis swim around Dyer Rocks in the Saanich Inlet. Not the greatest photos because of the particulate in the water but I do adore these nudis. #UnderwaterPhotography #MarineLife #snorkelling #VancouverIsland #nudibranch #SeaSlug

A hooded nudibranch, about the size of a thumb, with its oral hood visible and one of its leaf-shaped projections sticking out to show a sort-of leaf shaped pattern through its translucent surface.

A hooded nudibranch, translucent, with yellow-brownish patterning on the dorsal surface.

A hooded nudibranch that sort of resembles a wasp in the way it's posed. It's translucent white with a brownish pattern that looks a bit like a network of veins

A hooded nudibranch with its oral hood open and tentacles visible in the hood. On the lower part of the body, there are several leaf-shaped projects that are also translucent and show a yellowish pattern that looks like a small network of veins.

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Maggie @maggieleithead.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Hooray hooray for #SeaSlugDay. A few recent ones from around the Saanich Peninsula: Monterey sea lemon, clown dorid, and a sweet little Hudson's horned dorid. Yay #nudibranchs #underwaterphotography

Two Monterey sea lemons, adorable yellow sea slugs that are lemon shaped and covered in black speckles.

A clown dorid, an elongated white sea slug with festive orange-tipped rhinophores and papillae.

A Hudson's Horned Dorid, a translucent nudibranch with yellow-tipped rhinophores and papillae.

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Maggie @maggieleithead.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Had a wonderful first-time roam around Iron Mine Bay this morning. Excellent visibility of 6-7m at the start and still 4ish metres by the end. This area is teeming with all sorts of goodies. Yay nature, yet again. #UnderwaterPhotography #anemone #MarineLife #snorkelling

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