12-23 Monterey Pics

[Larry C]

Back in the water again! Lousy vis, murky water-lost my buddy (wife) for the first time in almost 200 dives together. Shooting a shrimp and she was gone when I looked up. Got a few OK pics though. Hopkins Deep and Shale Island.

Noble Sea Lemon

Another Lemon and a couple of neighbors

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Two very friendly nudies and a star

This Hermit is not alone. (look behind)

 

[parabolic]

Nice stuff as usual Larry. The third photo is a chestnut cowry. Assume your wife was found and is well
++Ken++

 

[MontereyCADiver]

Larry,

I agree with Ken ... nice pics, as usual! I trust your wife is well, too.

Jeff

 

[Larry C]

Thanks Ken and Jeff, and thanks for the ID, Ken. Yeah, she's fine. She does the navigating while I lose myself playing camera. I did the lost diver drill. Hung and turned for three minutes, did a pattern and then surfaced safely after only shooting a few more pics on the way. She found the anchor, waited there about 5 minutes and came up to meet the rest of us at the surface.

 

[Gilligan]

Cool pics.

One does not lose their wife two days before Christmas. Maybe two days after.

 

[Larry C]

Thanks, Jim. Love your cartoons! Looks like Santa needs a shovel for X-mas. Happy Holidays all. May you all find new gear under the tree and great diving for the New Year.

 

[Mike Veitch]

good stuff Larry, that is a cool yellow nudie

 

[Dr. Doug Ebersole]

I love the nudis as well. We don't get many here in Florida.

Glad you found your wife!!! Unlike yours, mine tends to wander off sometimes. My kids and I even have developed a hand signal for "Where's Mom?"

 

[Larry C]

Thanks, Mike and Doug. I really enjoy the plethora of slugs we have here. I guess what we give up in water temp and visibility, we gain in sheer volume of life per square inch. Not that I wouldn't love to try the Keys and the South Pacific (notwithstanding the 45 hour each way flight times to Bali and Yap!)