Steller sea lions underwater, Norris Rocks, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada
Adams River sockeye salmon. A female sockeye salmon swims upstream in the Adams River to spawn, having traveled hundreds of miles upstream from the ocean.
Steller sea lion underwater, Norris Rocks, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada
The Fish Eating Anemone Urticina piscivora, a large colorful anemone found on the rocky underwater reefs of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada
Stars at night over Hurst Island, Gods Pocket Resort
Red Irish Lord sculpinfish, Browning Pass, British Columbia
Pink Soft Coral, Gersemia Rubiformis, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Dive Boat Hurst Island, Browning Pass, Canada, aerial photo
Browning Pass aerial photo, with Nigei Island (left) and Balackava Island (right).
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada
Steller Sea Lions and Bald Eagles atop Norris Rocks, Hornby Island and Vancouver Island, panoramic photo
Steller sea lions underwater, Norris Rocks, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada
The Fish Eating Anemone Urticina piscivora, a large colorful anemone found on the rocky underwater reefs of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
The Fish Eating Anemone Urticina piscivora, a large colorful anemone found on the rocky underwater reefs of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada
Vancouver Island hosts a profusion of spectacular anemones, on cold water reefs rich with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
A sockeye salmon swims in the shallows of the Adams River, with the surrounding forest visible in this split-level over-under photograph.
Sockeye salmon, migrating upstream in the Adams River to return to the spot where they were hatched four years earlier, where they will spawn, lay eggs and die.
Steller Sea Lions atop Norris Rocks, Hornby Island in the distance, panoramic photo
Alabaster Nudibranch, white-lined dirona, Dirona albolineata, Vancouver Island
Fleshy Sea Pen, Ptilosarcus gurneyi, Vancouver Island
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada
Moon jelly, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Canada
Red Irish Lord eye detail, Browning Pass, British Columbia
Colorful anemones and soft corals, bryozoans and kelp cover the rocky reef in a kelp forest near Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Strait. Strong currents bring nutrients to the invertebrate life clinging to the rocks.
Colorful anemones and soft corals, bryozoans and kelp cover the rocky reef in a kelp forest near Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Strait. Strong currents bring nutrients to the invertebrate life clinging to the rocks.
Colorful anemones and soft corals, bryozoans and kelp cover the rocky reef in a kelp forest near Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Strait. Strong currents bring nutrients to the invertebrate life clinging to the rocks.
Hurst Island and Gods Pocket Provincial Park, aerial photo
Yellow sulphur sponge and white metridium anemones, on a cold water reef teeming with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Bull kelp forest near Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada
Fleshy Sea Pen, Ptilosarcus gurneyi, Vancouver Island
Dendronotus iris swimming nudibranch, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
The Fish Eating Anemone Urticina piscivora, a large colorful anemone found on the rocky underwater reefs of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Red Nudibranch, Dendronotus rufus, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island hosts a profusion of spectacular anemones, on cold water reefs rich with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Bull kelp forest near Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada
Anemones are found in abundance on a spectacular British Columbia underwater reef, rich with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Colorful starfish (sea stars) cling to the reef, covered with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Pink Soft Coral (Gersemia Rubiformis), and Plumose Anemones (Metridium senile) cover the ocean reef, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Orange Peel Nudibranch, Tochuina gigantea, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Metridium and proliferating anemones cling to bull kelp. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Steller sea lions underwater, Norris Rocks, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada
Basket Star and Giant Metridium anemone, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Giant Plumose Anemone, Metridium farcimen, Canada
Sea grass in motion, shallow water. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada
Anemones are found in abundance on a spectacular British Columbia underwater reef, rich with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Bull kelp forest near Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada
Anemones are found in abundance on a spectacular British Columbia underwater reef, rich with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
White metridium anemones fed by strong ocean currents, cover a cold water reef teeming with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Ophiodon elongatus, Lingcod, Hornby Island, Canada
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.
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada
Red Irish Lord sculpinfish, Browning Pass, British Columbia
Starfish cling to a rocky reef, surrounded by other colorful invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
The Fish Eating Anemone Urticina piscivora, a large colorful anemone found on the rocky underwater reefs of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Clown Nudibranch, Triopha catalinae, Browning Passage, Vancouver Island
Hooded Nudibranch Melibe leonina on kelp and rocky reef, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Canada
Alabaster Nudibranch, white-lined dirona, Dirona albolineata, Vancouver Island
Tiny fish, unidentified, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Starfish detail, sea star skin details, Vancouver Island, Canada
A sockeye salmon swims in the shallows of the Adams River, with the surrounding forest visible in this split-level over-under photograph.
Typical vibrant invertebrate life, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada
The Fish Eating Anemone Urticina piscivora, a large colorful anemone found on the rocky underwater reefs of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
White plumose anemones Metridium senile with purple sponge and barnacle, Vancouver Island
Beautiful Anemone on Rocky Reef near Vancouver Island, Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada
Spotted Leopard Dorid, Diaulula odonoghuei, Vancouver Island
A school of sockeye salmon, swimming up the Adams River to spawn, where they will lay eggs and die.
Colorful starfish cling to submarine rocks, on the subtidal reef, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Giant Plumose Anemone, Metridium farcimen, Canada
Red Irish Lord sculpinfish, Browning Pass, British Columbia
Shallow water reef with coniferous forest hanging over the water, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Barnacle filtering food from passing ocean currents, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Colorful starfish (sea stars) cling to the reef, covered with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Mussels gather on a rocky reef, filtering nutrients from passing ocean currents. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Shallow water reef with coniferous forest hanging over the water, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada
Selfie with Steller sea lion underwater, Norris Rocks, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada
Hooded Nudibranch Melibe leonina swimming in mid water column, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Canada
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.
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.
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.
Purple sponge with white and orange metridium anemones, below bull kelp forest, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Lopholithodes mandtii Puget Sound King Crab amid a field of plumose anemones and red kelp, Queen Charlotte Strait, Canada
Chrome Island (foreground) and Denman Island, Hornby Island in the distance
Plumose anemones and Bull Kelp on British Columbia marine reef, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Canada
Copper Rockfish Sebastes caurinus with pink soft corals and reef invertebrate life, Browning Passage, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
White Plumose anemones Metridium senile and Yellow Sulphur Sponge, Vancouver Island
Sea Lemon, Anisodoris nobilis, Vancouver Island
Bull kelp forest near Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada
Red Irish Lord resting amid Plumose Metridium Anemones, Browning Pass, British Columbia
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.
Colorful reef scene on Vancouver Island, known for its underwater landscapes teeming with rich invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Chiton, Vancouver Island, Canada
Clouds over Nigei Island at sunrise, Vancouver Island, Canada
Bull kelp forest near Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada
White metridium anemones fed by strong ocean currents, cover a cold water reef teeming with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada
Bull kelp forest near Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada
A male sockeye salmon, showing injuries sustained as it migrated hundreds of miles from the ocean up the Fraser River, swims upstream in the Adams River to reach the place where it will fertilize eggs laid by a female in the rocks. It will die soon after spawning.