California Sea Hare

This California Sea hare was making it's way through the sea weed and algae.Just behind it you can see a freshly laid egg mass attached to the eel grass bed.Up to 80 million jelly-encased, yellow eggs are laid in long strings that can form a mass as large in diameter as a grapefruit. The mass is usually attached to eelgrass where the eggs turn brown in 8-9 days and hatch in 10-12 days.