{"id":156,"date":"2025-03-11T03:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T03:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/?p=156"},"modified":"2025-03-11T03:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T03:30:18","slug":"welcome-to-the-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/welcome-to-the-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laurie and I were diving at Cove 2 in West Seattle this past weekend when we saw a sea creature we hadn&#8217;t seen there before &#8212; an adult wolf eel had taken up residence under a steel plate that was amongst the debris that is scattered around the site. I&#8217;ve seen juvenile wolf eels around Cove 2 before which are distinguishable by their brighter orange coloring, but this was the first time we&#8217;d seen an adult at the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GOPR5693-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GOPR5693-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GOPR5693-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GOPR5693-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GOPR5693-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GOPR5693-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GOPR5693.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Just a shy Wolf Eel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was acting pretty shy and tucked up under the plate when we approached him, so I had to do my best to get a photo with my GoPro. You can see from the coloring that he is a young adult &#8212; he was probably about 3 feet long at this point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Time will tell whether he sticks around or if he finds Cove 2 a little too busy for his tastes. I will keep an eye out for him though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An adult wolf eel has taken up residence at Cove 2 in West Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,10,12],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divereports","tag-cove-2","tag-west-seattle","tag-wolf-eel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwdivers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}