Daily report for TsandM & WADiverBob

[Jason Ooi]

Pictures:
Mark & Rick at the tables.
A seal swims back and forth staring at Priscilla (check out the raging surf!).
Me and Mrs. I after lunch at Lobos (the water is flat calm).

nice pix...dude...i like your table

 

[mweitz]

I don't think it was a thresher. I think that the REALLY long tail would really stand out. It also really looked grey to me, and not blue. My first reaction was that it was a white, but it didn't really look like one. It seemed slimmer and not as "bulky" as a white. It also didn't look "rough" like a white, but more streamlined. Hard to describe and we only saw it from the top. Actually, it looked a lot like a Shortfin Mako, but I don't know if that is possible.

Hey Rick, do you have my dry gloves?

BTW, the table idea came from Bob Sherwood, the GUE Instructor. I heard that he brings them with him when he travels. The Roleez cart I saw Joe Talavera (another instructor) using a few times. I'm just a copycat.

Mark

The shark you are most likely to see along the edge of the kelp would be a thresher
(big long tail). Blues are usually well offshore, and 6' would be a pretty big one. But
the blues do like the warm water we've been having. Either one would be unusual -- I've
seen two threshers and no blues while diving close to shore. I've seen a few blues well
offshore. No whites.

 

[Rick Inman]

I don't think it was a thresher. I think that the REALLY long tail would really stand out. It also really looked grey to me, and not blue.

Totally agree. I googled a thresher pic, and that wern't it.

Hey Rick, do you have my dry gloves?

Nope. :shakehead (I double checked everywhere) But I think you had them on all the way up to the truck.

What was it you told me about not needing gloves??

Hope you find them.

 

[TSandM]

Sigh . . . Rick, I'm going to be so annoyed if we get to Monterey next weekend and discover you've used all the luck. Leave some luck for us, would you?

 

[mweitz]

Oh, here is where you check conditions:

http://www.garlic.com/~triblet/swell/wamglance.html

and this is the Monterey Buoy:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/plot_met.php?station=46042&meas=wvht

Mark

 

[dannobee]

Or just use Les' site. Has all of the links you'll need, and a live cam at McAbee.

http://www.lesjackson.com/mcabee.htm

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

Makos are an outside possibility. They are reported to show up when chumming for
blues.

Young whites are thinner than the big ones, IIRC.


Chuck

 

[Rick Inman]

Makos are an outside possibility. They are reported to show up when chumming for
blues.

Young whites are thinner than the big ones, IIRC.


Chuck

I guess diving with Mark could be considered, "chumming for blues."

Wish I could know for sure it was a young white. It'd sure make a better story.

 

[mweitz]

Rick, lets shoot over to the aquarium on Sat afternoon and check out the baby white there. It is about 5' ....

Here are a couple of additions to the dive:

Nudibrach: Doriopsilla spaldingi http://www.seaslugforum.net/display.cfm?id=3043 only the second one I've seen. Both right at 100' or so at North Monastery.

We saw a really pretty Cabezon at about 25'.

I'm going to say that the aforementioned Chromodoris macfarlandi was in fact 4 Mexichromis porterae http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=mexiport

 

[mjones]

Sounds more like a soupfin to me.