Its hot out but the water was a very pleasant & refreshing 78 at surface. We are at Dirty Shirt and its crowded with cars and jet skis. Desert Tortise was worst. Water is still high enough that alot of Dirty Shirt is still underwater so it really seems crowded.....oh well....we're here...we have equipment and we each have a full set of doubles. Cant waste the gas!
Had to swim out at bit as we were stuck in the cove (only place to park) Descended to 15 ft. Good enough. Tied off to a rock and headed out doing line drills. Found ourselves running a gully at 25-30ft of water. Viz between 5-10 ft. Avg for most of the dive was 7-8ft. Thermocline at 30ft which was a little depression in the gulley. In this depression the viz dropped to 2 ft. We actually stayed on top of it as the bottom was 32 ft here. There were areas off to the side and that we passed through that were milky white, on the bottom 2 feet. Couldnt see anything in those patches...Kinda weird looking. Did two 35-40 min dives up and down the gulley doing drills. Saw a 2 ft carp (?) and a few other smaller fish, no idea what they were. Several small trees that made for great tie offs.
All and all, not a bad dive for skills and drills....... :daisysmil
Had to swim out at bit as we were stuck in the cove (only place to park) Descended to 15 ft. Good enough. Tied off to a rock and headed out doing line drills. Found ourselves running a gully at 25-30ft of water. Viz between 5-10 ft. Avg for most of the dive was 7-8ft. Thermocline at 30ft which was a little depression in the gulley. In this depression the viz dropped to 2 ft. We actually stayed on top of it as the bottom was 32 ft here. There were areas off to the side and that we passed through that were milky white, on the bottom 2 feet. Couldnt see anything in those patches...Kinda weird looking. Did two 35-40 min dives up and down the gulley doing drills. Saw a 2 ft carp (?) and a few other smaller fish, no idea what they were. Several small trees that made for great tie offs.
All and all, not a bad dive for skills and drills....... :daisysmil