Welp, this time we hit north wall! It looked ferocious towards the pier and I'm sure the surfers were having a marvelous day, but the surf zone actually wasn't too bad because the waves felt powerless. Another meet at 6:30am, gear up, and hit the water 7am-ish dive. Oh, and there was a south current in the ... let's say 15' depth water, along the shore. Once you got past it, it was a good calm dive.
We saw all sorts of stuff, but my pictures didn't turn out too well because I was trying out a different mode and not using a light to see what happened. The things you *won't* be seeing are the squid eggs, lobster, sarcastic fringehead, 3-4 large sheephead swimming around us, & what I think are gobies.
Dive was 50mins long, temp was up this time to a whole balmy 59ºF, max depth was 76fsw though I only popped down real quick to get a shot of an octo (I think it was the octo, either that or the red anemonie.. I forget). Viz was up to a whole at least 20' in the shallows, but back down to 10' in places by the wall ~60fsw. Whenever I tried to swim along the side of the wall at, say, 70fsw, the water would toss me back towards and up the wall to 60fsw so I decided to just swim along the top. Not a bad decision considering my usually well-behaved ear decided to be the one to act up today, so I figured I wouldn't give it a work out.
Here's the subset of photos that didn't look too bad:
my buddy found an octo!!!
small sheepshead crab and my buddy
starfish
stingray
and the exit conditions:
We saw all sorts of stuff, but my pictures didn't turn out too well because I was trying out a different mode and not using a light to see what happened. The things you *won't* be seeing are the squid eggs, lobster, sarcastic fringehead, 3-4 large sheephead swimming around us, & what I think are gobies.
Dive was 50mins long, temp was up this time to a whole balmy 59ºF, max depth was 76fsw though I only popped down real quick to get a shot of an octo (I think it was the octo, either that or the red anemonie.. I forget). Viz was up to a whole at least 20' in the shallows, but back down to 10' in places by the wall ~60fsw. Whenever I tried to swim along the side of the wall at, say, 70fsw, the water would toss me back towards and up the wall to 60fsw so I decided to just swim along the top. Not a bad decision considering my usually well-behaved ear decided to be the one to act up today, so I figured I wouldn't give it a work out.
Here's the subset of photos that didn't look too bad:
my buddy found an octo!!!
small sheepshead crab and my buddy
starfish
stingray
and the exit conditions:
