Whelks to Whales: Coastal Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest

This book has been very helpful in identifing the many different creatures I have seen while diving in Washinton State's Puget Sound as well as around Vancouver Island. It is perfect for any recreational diver because while it does list Phylum and Species, it also gives the commom name and even alternate common names if applicable. Each entry also gives the Size, Range, Habitat, Description and a brief comment about the entry. The photos are clear and sometimes include photos of the fishes egg mass. This book covers the most common of the marine life that you are likely to encounter while diving in the Pacific Northwest. I take it with me when I go diving and use it after the dive to show what I saw and for others to identify what they saw. It also helps me at home latter when I want to put a name to a photo I took while diving. I whole heartedly recommend this book to anyone slightly curious as to what that thing is called they saw on that last dive.

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Great book for identifing the marine life of the Pacific Northwest.

Fast shipping!! came in day before my first day of class!!

Love the book. Love the photos! Excellent photography and very helpful descriptions of sea life. I recommend it to others.

Awesome book for learning about animals in the PNW,

My kids are studying the ocean right now, so we picked up this book at the library to familiarize ourselves with the various animals we might see when we go to the coast. Of course the first thing they looked for was the great white shark. But it's not in there. No great white in a book about the marine life of coastal Pacific Northwest? So I thought maybe they're just talking about way up North, not here in Northern California, but no their map includes Northern California.And I just finished reading a book about geoduck poaching, but the geoduck entry in this book doesn't mention that there is a serious poaching problem.Other than that, my kids have really enjoyed looking at the pictures and reading the very brief entry about each animal. I appreciate that it covers mammals, bivalves, whelks... all kinds of life, not just one family of critters like so many books do. I guess that's why it's not exhaustive.

This is a great book, but it isn't as complete as I would have liked. The photographs are good and you can identify quite a bit, but not everything. It is a good starting point book though because there are numerous subsections.

This is great, compact basic identification book which would be ideal to have in your bag at the beach, it is divided into logical sections and has some good background information on each group and then some beautiful photos of a selection of common species.

Very good copy as expected and prompt delivery. A very good, accurate reference to have in our Salish Sea location.

This book is excellent and came in great condition at a great price. Happy customer!