Dive: Monterey Breakwater

We had an OK dive in Monterey last Saturday. The water is becoming cloudy with organic matter after the clear, cold spell of winter. I just bought an underwater housing for my digital camera and was eager to try it out - some results below! We didn't see much that was new, and had to cut our second dive short because the housing started to leak a bit. In the composite below we have, from upper left clockwise: an aggregate of club-tipped anemones, a sunflower star, an anemone with a cluster of nudibranch eggs, and finally a sea cucumber. The sea cucumber threw me for a loop - I thought it was some kind of plant or a gorgonian.