Beach Dive this Weekend

[SFLDiver]

Me thinks I made out like a bandit in going early friday.

Things learned ..... get my tukkus outta bed early enough to beat rush hour traffic during the week! That means I get to finish my dive early enough to beat the subsequent friday lunch hour traffic as well.

2 hrs underwater .... 3 ft of vis .... flat seas up top, but a decent and very odd bottom surge underneath at 30 ft. Twas more like a mambo than a surge .... 2 beats one way, lull, 2-3 beats the other, lull .... just need a good conga line rhythm. Deep sea swell from the northeast. From what, I dunno. I could see American Dream up on the northern part of the reef rockin and rollin in the swells.

No bugs spotted, but did manage a few good shots of a juvenile smooth trunkfish.
Cute lil buggers ... look like a swimming blackened popcorn kernel.

 

[MikeJacobs]

Me thinks I made out like a bandit in going early friday
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decent and very odd bottom surge underneath at 30 ft.
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did manage a few good shots of a juvenile smooth trunkfish. Cute lil buggers ... look like a swimming blackened popcorn kernel.

Yeah, you were right to go Friday! I think those juvinile's main defense mechanism is that they're "just too cute to eat." Those are great shots. You meant 30' visibility, right?

I guess if you found 30' you kayaked to the mooring bouys... is there anything that deep inland of the drop-off?

 

[SFLDiver]

30' vis and 30' typical depth, although there are places that come up to 6-8'.
Yup on the location. I park at the free parking area N of Sunrise, right next to the beach, and paddle out to the mooring buoys and go with the current.

Lil bugger was tough to focus on. Went with auto-focus and popped off 30 shots, half dozen of which were good.