Folly Night dive 6/29

[reefseal]

With the rain and thunderstorms finally leaving us, Fencingfish joined me for a night dive at Folly last night. We were suprised to see no one else there so we had Folly to ourselves. The water was pretty still and the winds were calm. We were going in almost 1/2 way between high and low tide.

We chose to tour the left side and headed to the point and back moving up and down the walls, swimming through the little passes. The vis surprisingly wasn't that bad. We could at least see as far as the range of our UW lights. We encountered Plenty of cool sealife. A couple Sea Ravens, Sea Robin, a decent sized striper, lots of flounder (including lots of little jueveniles), skate and bugs. Interesting seeing the lobstahs crawling up along the wall and even upside down like big cock roaches. The highlight was seeing the schools of baby squid in the shallows as we were returning back. Very curious about our lights We surfaced to partly cloudy sky with view of the stars.

Total Bottom time 80 min, max depth 46 fsw, temp 57 degrees

Folly by far is one of my best night dive spots.

 

[fencingfish]

the bioluminescence was in full force and the squid were such a great surprise. There were a lot of cod and pollock among the rocks too. We each found a large lobster and played with- I mean, observed it. There were a lot of frilled anemones decorating the boulders and a ctenophore (comb jelly) waving its little prismatic ctene in our lights.

A great dive with lots of cool critters! Folly is definitely up there on my list of favorites, too.

 

[xroirat]

Thanks for the post and you've gotten me interested. Any idea if they enforce the resident only parking at night?
Jim

 

[reefseal]

a ctenophore waving its little prismatic ctene in our lights.

You parents should be proud of your degree. I thought I was a dude by peppering in invasive tunicates into my diving conversations.

I've never had any issues parking during the week at dusk or evenings.. Though everytime I surface, the first thing I look is to see if the car is there!