Well, I've finally been finding more dive buddies (yay!), and finally accepted the fact that the camera I lost in Key Largo late last year is good and gone (so I finally gave in and bought another of the same, because I already had the case), so I got a nice dive in this morning.
Conditions were as flat as it gets in La Jolla. The 'waves' were a little bit of fizz around your ankles, the water wasn't churned-up sand like a week ago and viz was (and I'm bad at estimating distances) at least 15'. Evidence of the water churning and sloshing earlier in the week was all around in the form of rolled-up logs, like tumbleweed, of the green stuff. We had hoped to aim for North Wall, but didn't quite make it there. I know my buddy was disappointed because he had wanted to see the eel there, but I told him I thought it was a really great dive because we did see a bunch of other really great stuff. We dropped in something like 30-40fsw, and swam around on a gentle slope that slowly rolled down, which wasn't the gross muck-y wall that I'm used to from LJS (I'm not sad).
Temp at depth was ~53-54ºF (83fsw) and maybe slightly warmer towards the surface at 55ºF but I wouldn't really call that a thermocline. Lets just say it was cold the whole way down. Spent a bunch of time at 10-20fsw just putzing around getting to the bottom of my tanks, because why be on land when you can be in the water.
Here's my dive:
sheepshead crab - I think we were somewhere between 50-75fsw
squid eggs - all the clumps we found were.. I'd say between 50-80fsw
a fish, I have no idea what kind. they're the small ones that are 4" or so, and just all over the place between 80-20fsw
(i really have no idea what that thing is)
the view up the hill, I'd say at about 40fsw
this one looked like a stingray @ ~30fsw
thornback ray @ <30fsw
bigger thornback ray, <30fsw
..with a close-up of it because I think they're way cool
someone said this is a flounder?
this is some purple animal @~5fsw, and a stingray zoomed past me not too long after I took this shot, but it was too quick for a last pic.
and the view topside (we surfaced at 5fsw)
Conditions were as flat as it gets in La Jolla. The 'waves' were a little bit of fizz around your ankles, the water wasn't churned-up sand like a week ago and viz was (and I'm bad at estimating distances) at least 15'. Evidence of the water churning and sloshing earlier in the week was all around in the form of rolled-up logs, like tumbleweed, of the green stuff. We had hoped to aim for North Wall, but didn't quite make it there. I know my buddy was disappointed because he had wanted to see the eel there, but I told him I thought it was a really great dive because we did see a bunch of other really great stuff. We dropped in something like 30-40fsw, and swam around on a gentle slope that slowly rolled down, which wasn't the gross muck-y wall that I'm used to from LJS (I'm not sad).
Temp at depth was ~53-54ºF (83fsw) and maybe slightly warmer towards the surface at 55ºF but I wouldn't really call that a thermocline. Lets just say it was cold the whole way down. Spent a bunch of time at 10-20fsw just putzing around getting to the bottom of my tanks, because why be on land when you can be in the water.
Here's my dive:
sheepshead crab - I think we were somewhere between 50-75fsw
squid eggs - all the clumps we found were.. I'd say between 50-80fsw
a fish, I have no idea what kind. they're the small ones that are 4" or so, and just all over the place between 80-20fsw
(i really have no idea what that thing is)
the view up the hill, I'd say at about 40fsw
this one looked like a stingray @ ~30fsw
thornback ray @ <30fsw
bigger thornback ray, <30fsw
..with a close-up of it because I think they're way cool
someone said this is a flounder?
this is some purple animal @~5fsw, and a stingray zoomed past me not too long after I took this shot, but it was too quick for a last pic.
and the view topside (we surfaced at 5fsw)
Looks like I'll be adding la jolla shores to my dive list when my dive partner and I visit San Diego in the near future. 
