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Mr Carcharodon

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Anyone been to Lunada Bay lately? I was impressed by the kelp this afternoon while Malaga is just about bare. We did have dolphins this morning at Torrance Beach, RAT and Malaga but the kelp and fish population is spotty. Clearly the kelp is better at Lunada what about the rest of the ecosystem?
 
There is a lot of kelp just offshore from Malaga but it doesn't reach the surface. We've had one series of swells after another for the past couple of months. The reefs between Lunada Bay and Honeymoon Cove have so much kelp that it's difficult to get to the reefs. Fish and nudibranch numbers have been pretty low, but that could be the 51° water temps we've had most of this year. Palos Verdes missed out on the "Global Warming" that Laguna and Catalina experienced.

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The visibility on the bottom has been marginal lately so most of our photos have been from finding tiny animals up in the kelp.
 

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