Our first day in Magdalena Bay started with our guests boarding Zodiacs and searching for their first sightings of the wonderful gray whale that brings so many of us to this area. At La Entrada, where the Pacific Ocean meets the south entrance to the bay, we encounter adult gray whales throughout the area. While our guests know what they are looking for above the surface it is below the emerald green interface between the sea and the sky that many have not experienced. With the help of a couple of buddy divers I submerged with the camera to bring back images of the deep back to our guests. Immediately we came face to face with one of the most brightly colored fish I have ever encountered, the Garibaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus). The Garibaldi is a temperate cousin to all the damselfish we encountered in the Gulf of California and is distributed from Monterey Bay, California in the north to this very spot in Magdalena Bay in the south. Like most damselfish, the Garibaldi is highly territorial and this large fellow with the chunky forehead and golden eye gave me plenty of time to get a good shot.