Snow Goddess, Frogfish, and Flame Angel

Woah! Nudibranchs, rare fish, and pretty terrible visibility. This is what I remember from our first dive at White Rock in the new year. Ben, Heidi, and I dove looking for nudibranch pictures and found more than we thought. The usual fuchsia flatworm was the first to be spotted but then a tiled plurobranch followed by this beautiful white frilled nudibranch surprised us. We had to do a lot of followup to get the identity of this white frilled nudibranch but after consulting a local nudibranch expert we found out it was our first snow goddess nudibrach. It was being harassed by a fireworm so it looks a bit unusual. After taking a few pictures of these I heard Heidi's tank banger and saw her giving the underwater sign for angel fish (a halo over the head), which could only mean one thing...flame angel! I had to sit motionless for about 5 minutes to get even this glimpse of the angelfish for a picture. Very timid creature. A few more usual suspect nudis and one huge frogfish kept us busy for the rest of the day! It is pretty rare to find a frogfish on the reef but this had to be the biggest and grumpiest one I've found.