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John,
This was yesterday.
There is a perimeter road that faces the time shares along the beach, just south of the Ocean mall. At the end of that road, there is a chain preventing you from going to the extreme end, abutting the jetty and sidewalk on top of it. When you stand on the sidewalk on top of the jetty, and face East over the ocean--to the east end of the jetty and the pumphouse, the distance is about 100 yards....You do have to carry your gear this distance, but once at the pumphouse, you can set up and do a beach entry much like at the BHB.
The point has so much life on it, that many divers could spend an hour or two just at the extreme east end of the rocks, with no need to do the run down the jetty and back. For anyone unsure of getting themselves way down the jetty and then having trouble getting back, the solution is to do the first dive just at the point, and the next add maybe 100 feet or so of jetty before turning back...and then each successive trip try a little further. I have been doing this since the late 70's, so my opinion on how hard or easy this is should be fairly irrelevant to most
The only challenge to me for this dive, is the parking and drop off. I have actually found one local that lives a stones throw away from the end of the road...good for me and my buddies, but it does not help the rest of the BHB crowd....which is why I am trying to get the bike taxi thing going right away..great for the BHB, and great for the Pumphouse.
If you had a friend that was completely selfless and a non-divers, you might get them to drop you off at the end of the steet, and pick you up later....My warning is that the local Barney Fife has little better to do than patrol for parking violations, and he will see you as attempting to park or STAND if you do any thing more than jump out and go....meaning you would almost have to gear up at pura vida or the bridge, and then get shuttled over.
Again, the bike taxis would fix this completely, as they could drive right into the area closed to motorized vehicles, and the harassment during loading/unloading could not occur.
This also works great for snorkeling/freediving, in which case you could take a paddleboard from Pura Vida and paddle from the BHB to the end of the jetty, and tow the paddleboard with a dive flag on it....easy for snorkeling...putting a tank on one might be easy, but someone would need to figure out all the issues.
