Indeed, the visibility was great! Despite the intermittent rain the first half of the day, there wasn't much of surge and only a little bit of outward current in the cove. Let me add some details to the report...
Dive 1: Hole in the Wall to Sea Mount
Avg depth: 53 ft. Dive time: 41 min. Min temp: 48 F
Plan for this dive was to surface kick out to the sand channel, drop and head to HitW, then continue on to Sea Mount. Shortly after dropping, we got a view as below:
Clipping along on scooter with farty, Scubabumps, and Jotho in plain view, we came across the usual suspects on the wall to Sea Mount - metridiums, sheephead, yellow/strawberry anemones dotting the walls. I did notice that the kelp had remarkably cleared out... very little on the surface kick out, and the dense canopies in the shallows had also thinned. Turned at a depth of 85 fsw, and came back along the sand channel. Managing scooter, camera, drysuit for the first time turned this into more of a busy dive than anything else, but lack of current and great visibility more than made up for it.
Dive 2 - Granite Point Wall
Avg depth: 45 ft. Dive time: 48 min. Min temp: 48 F
Plan for this dive was to drop at Middle Reef and follow 45 degree heading to Granite Point Wall across the sand channel. On the way out, the tide had receded quite a bit from the boat ramp, which made entry slightly more difficult. Surface kick was a breeze. It was a blast to find GPW after a minute of crossing the sand channel from Middle Reef.
On the way back, we had a very curious local tug at our fins and try to get our attention...
A great day of diving.
