Hopkins Preserve Question

[blewgrass]

Reading the Bruce Watkins dive site report he says that this reserve (behind Point Cabrillo) is a good spot to hide from the wind. It also says that boaters are not allowed to anchor in the preserve. How well is the preserve marked? Are boaters expected to anchor right outside the boundaries of the preserve and swim or dive in?

I am also on the hunt for GPS coordinates of good beginner to intermediate dive sites... especially around Pebble Beach or Stillwater Cove. That area, provided I can get around the corner in good seas, appears to be all but cut off from any northwesterly swell action. South swell appears to be a direct hit!

Steve

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

It was a "reserve", not "preserve". I say "was" because it was expanded
and renamed Lover's Pt. State Marine Reserve, and anchoring is specifically
permitted. And it was never clear to me that anchoring in the old reserve
was forbidden. However, it's a bad idea because you don't want to drop
your hook on some student's experiment. The corners of the old reserve
were:
N36 37.251 W121 54.500
N36 37.630 W121 54.340
N36 37.220 W121 53.850
N36 37.100 W121 54.090

South swell is fairly rare.