An interesting part of every deep dive is that shallow last third where physics and biology enforce coming up to a shallow depth to avoid decompression issues. Here the freedom of exploring the depths is taken from us and safely of the shallows presents new and interesting things to explore and see.

Here among the swaying kelp I found this small garden of plumrose anenome (Metridium senile). In a strange way it was easy to imagine these as a head of cauliflower wrapped in the green leaves of kelp. I’m sure there must be a good a recipe for ocean cauliflower soup, and somewhere it is probably a delicacy.

I’ll stick with cauliflower from the garden for now but happy to see more of these beautiful anemones on future dives.