The Marine Detective

Such great thanks to all who helped with the selection of photos for my 2024 WILD calendar. They are now available and can be ordered at this link. My WILD Calendar is aimed at creating awareness...

https://themarinedetective.com/2024/08/14/2025-wild-calendar/

This is another Ocean Voice blog = my thoughts about hope, connection, equality and positive action for future generations. I have been dizzied by recent global events and needed to ground myself...

https://themarinedetective.com/2024/07/21/the-strongest-forces/

Oh the fabulously diverse ways that anemones reproduce! I recently documented another species where the larvae develop in the mother’s tentacles! I have even seen the babies move. See them?! Fo...

https://themarinedetective.com/2024/06/23/babies-in-their-tentacles/

Voting time!Do you want to help decide which photos will be in my 2025 WILD calendar? The calendar is aimed at creating awareness and positive action for the mysterious and fragile life hidden in...

https://themarinedetective.com/2024/06/02/vote-2025-wild-calendar/

I was given homework and I have tears in my eyes. Last Thursday, I had the joy of teaching “All About Octopuses” to local kindergarten students. After I had taught them, we were sitting in a ...

https://themarinedetective.com/2024/05/20/say-gilakasla-to-the-octopus/

This is another big “daring to share” post. It’s not about marine life. It’s about my life. I share these more personal posts wanting the words to land where they may be of use to others....

https://themarinedetective.com/2024/05/13/to-the-children/

Yes, yes I do feel somehow better now that I have compiled the following for you. Thanks for asking. Monterey Sea Lemons and Pacific Sea Lemons are commonly confused with one another (and other y...

https://themarinedetective.com/2024/03/02/whos-that-yellow-dorid/

There’s a whole lot of mating going

https://themarinedetective.com/2024/02/25/beautiful-berthella-a-sea-slug-that-is-not-a-nudibranch/

The following is again a more personal post. The words I share below have resonated strongly with many on social media. Therefore, I am sharing them here too. May they land with others who gain f...

https://themarinedetective.com/2024/02/14/we-are-not-less/

Hello dear Community, Here’s another more personal, daring-to-share blog. I posted the following on social media this past week and it resounded strongly with people. So I am also sharing it wi...

https://themarinedetective.com/2023/12/03/here-i-am/