Dive Buddies - Labor Day Weekend

[Scot M]

I'm up for Monday, and possibly Saturday too. Earlier is better. I'd like to get back home by noon-ish. As for where, Orange County is easiest, but I'm not going to whine if someone has a different thought.

 

[sessions]

I'm up for Monday, and possibly Saturday too. Earlier is better. I'd like to get back home by noon-ish. As for where, Orange County is easiest, but I'm not going to whine if someone has a different thought.

Jim/Scott...I'm very unfamiliar with the shoree diving/locations....so I'll follow your lead....my email is rsess@msn.com, let me know where to meet you in upland, as i am In Mo Valley. Early sounds good to me, or my wife may come cut our lines. I just got a great T-shirt...says: " My wife told me that if I dive again this weekend, she's gonna leave me........I'M SURE GONNA MISS HER!.

 

[saf_25]

Yes, Big Corona is Corona Del Mar, where you go down the hill and pay the $10 (can you believe it's $10 now!! For the longest time it was $6, but is now more) to park in the lot. As opposed to Little Corona, which is also Corona Del Mar, but slightly further south, where you park for free at the top of the hill (when/if you find a spot) and walk down with all of your gear. It's nice for just 1 dive, but that hill gets long when you're doing 2.

I know what you mean about shuddering at the thought - I, too, did Corona for certification 2 years ago, and haven't been back for exactly the reason you mentioned until a friend talked me into it 2 weeks ago . But, I have since learned where the reef is, and it's actually a nice dive when you can find the rocks. Was there a few weeks ago, like I mentioned, and saw 3 octopi (1 of which was out in the open, swimming from hole to hole in the reef in the middle of the day) a fringehead, a neat-looking nudibranch (like a spanish shawl, only the orange part was white, and the purple was more pink) and lots of other neat stuff. It's a bit of a surface swim (the dive is essentially to the south of the beach - the rocks underneath Inspiration Point. If you dive Little Corona, you dive the same reef, just the other side of them, sort of).
Hope you can make it!

Stacy

 

[saf_25]

Corona Del Mar is nice for the family, too - a nice, sandy beach to lay out / play in the waves at (hopefully there won't be many). Bring the wife along too!

 

[hermosadive]

I probably can join in too. Might drag a friend and the wife if I can talk them into renting gear. Old Marineland, Malaga Cove, Big Rock, Topaz Jetty are some suggestions I would like to pitch. If everyone can get up early enough, it would be possible to do 3 dives, hell, even 3 locations on a single day. Lets get the ball rolling...

Saturday
1) Old Marineland @ 7:30am
take a break
2) Topaz Jetty/Veterans Park
take a break
3) Malaga Cove
Beer

All these spots are close to each other in the Palos Verde/Redondo Beach area. Any taker? Airfills are nearby at DiveNSurf or the other shop in Redondo Village.

Pasley, are you doing the Sandeaters dive @ White Point on Sunday? What would you predict the vis to be like at White Point? I hear is usually is crap.


Roland

Scot, Jim,
Open Sat, Sun or Monday for diving. Where do you want to go? When? Catalina is not on my plate.

 

[sapphire]

Yes, Big Corona is Corona Del Mar, where you go down the hill and pay the $10 (can you believe it's $10 now!! For the longest time it was $6, but is now more) to park in the lot. As opposed to Little Corona, which is also Corona Del Mar, but slightly further south, where you park for free at the top of the hill (when/if you find a spot) and walk down with all of your gear. It's nice for just 1 dive, but that hill gets long when you're doing 2.

I know what you mean about shuddering at the thought - I, too, did Corona for certification 2 years ago, and haven't been back for exactly the reason you mentioned until a friend talked me into it 2 weeks ago . But, I have since learned where the reef is, and it's actually a nice dive when you can find the rocks. Was there a few weeks ago, like I mentioned, and saw 3 octopi (1 of which was out in the open, swimming from hole to hole in the reef in the middle of the day) a fringehead, a neat-looking nudibranch (like a spanish shawl, only the orange part was white, and the purple was more pink) and lots of other neat stuff. It's a bit of a surface swim (the dive is essentially to the south of the beach - the rocks underneath Inspiration Point. If you dive Little Corona, you dive the same reef, just the other side of them, sort of).
Hope you can make it!

Stacy

Stacy,

I might join you this weekend... I am able to dive Sunday and Monday (unless a spot opens up on the charter I was too late for!)... let me know when you decide to meet, and where at the beach/parking lot you meet...

jennifer

 

[mccabejc]

Okay, so far we have a Monday dive, early, with the following folks:

Jim
Sessions
Scot M
Pasley ??
Hermosadive ??

We could hit Crescent Bay in Laguna (the only Laguna location I'm familiar with, and a good bet for parking if we get there early). And it can be an easy shallow dive for us new guys. I'm going to bring my two new tanks, so if anyone wants to do a second dive that's fine with me.

Though I'd like to try Shaw's or some of the other Laguna spots is anyone is familiar with them. I'll probably leave my place around 6-6:30 and get to Laguna around 7-7:30, so even with two dives we should be back before noon.

 

[sessions]

Okay, so far we have a Monday dive, early, with the following folks:

Jim
Sessions
Scot M
Pasley ??
Hermosadive ??

We could hit Crescent Bay in Laguna (the only Laguna location I'm familiar with, and a good bet for parking if we get there early). And it can be an easy shallow dive for us new guys. I'm going to bring my two new tanks, so if anyone wants to do a second dive that's fine with me.

Though I'd like to try Shaw's or some of the other Laguna spots is anyone is familiar with them. I'll probably leave my place around 6-6:30 and get to Laguna around 7-7:30, so even with two dives we should be back before noon.

I have a afternoon commitment, in Huntington Beach, so I will meet you at crescent at 7:00-7:30am....do you park on Cliff drive??...let me know any specifics, and how to find you

 

[saf_25]

Ok, we've got plans for Sunday, for anyone who wants to join us. We'll be meeting at Corona Del Mar (the big beach, at the bottom of the hill) at 9 am (whoo-hoo, sleeping in until 7 rocks!!). We'll try to park at the farthest South end of the parking lot - that's the end that's on the left when you're standing on the sand looking at the water. If anyone needs directions, let me know.

The plan is to get 2 dives in if conditions are nice, so bring 2 tanks. We'll hopefully do a picnic lunch in between dives - there is a snack bar there if you want to go that route, or you can brown bag it.

Jennifer, and anyone else who was interested - I hope you
can make it. See you there!
Stacy

 

[scottfiji]

My, my, you all have been busy little bees, haven't you? 3 days of diving scheduled - looks great!

To summarize,
Roland has organized Saturday diving in PV, 7:30AM
Stacy has organized Sunday diving in Corona del mar, 9:00AM
and James, I mean, Jim, has organized a Monday dive in Laguna, 7:30AM

Is this correct?

I'll try to make at least one, maybe two days..I want to see if Jim and Stacy look like their avatars.. I already know Roland does when he dons a battle-axe.

If anyone wants to see the ubiquitous white-tipped propellerfish or the elusive flying-jetski-marlin in Marina del rey, let me know and I can try to organize a local dive here...

Scott