Kelp forests: inhabitants

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Much like in a healthy coral forest, fish is abundant in a kelp forest.

Garibaldi fish is smiling and watching me. Garibaldis are the least cautious and friendliest fish out there.

The most common is perch


I don't know why the sharks roam on a sand bank and do not approach kelp forests

where there is more fish.

A school of bigger fish.


And smaller.


And the biggest.





A starfish.

All my pics from Malaga cove and Bluff cove dives last weekend are in a picasa album