My dive buddy and I had another nice shallow dive at Marine Room today. We thought viz might be terrible because he's been seeing terrible conditions all week, but were pleasantly surprised. We decided if it was bad on the kickout towards the kelp/grass we'd just aim for deeper waters. Anyway, it turned out well with not really milky viz, but a bit of particulate in the water, but still viz was 15-20' in places. Down about an hour and five minutes, 19fsw max with 9fsw average, and somehow my computer's saying 69ºF! We were pretty shallow and the sun was getting down, so I shouldn't be too surprised. We scared up a lot of rays, and saw a guitarfish on our entry, but didn't get pics of those with hands full of fins and stuff.
Here's what we saw:
such a terrible pic, but I swear it looked like a baby, maybe wolf eel? swimming into the seagrass
lots of lobster this time
this skate was the size of my buddy!
here's the head - it was strange it was on the rocks, because I'm used to seeing them buried in the sand
buddy! He was using his 120cuft today
Anyone know what these are? They've got red stripes.. I'll post a video I got of them once it uploads. There were easily hundreds of them schooling.
And in the murkiest waters possible of course, my favourite - a bat ray! My buddy found it (and a pretty big one at that)
they seem to hang out, until you swim up to them
another skate!
More fish hanging out
and a nice bird on exit!
Here's what we saw:
such a terrible pic, but I swear it looked like a baby, maybe wolf eel? swimming into the seagrass
lots of lobster this time
this skate was the size of my buddy!
here's the head - it was strange it was on the rocks, because I'm used to seeing them buried in the sand
buddy! He was using his 120cuft today
Anyone know what these are? They've got red stripes.. I'll post a video I got of them once it uploads. There were easily hundreds of them schooling.
And in the murkiest waters possible of course, my favourite - a bat ray! My buddy found it (and a pretty big one at that)
they seem to hang out, until you swim up to them
another skate!
More fish hanging out
and a nice bird on exit!