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MaxBottomtime

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I finally got Evil Jeff back in the water today. It was just like riding a bike...you fall down, get hurt, cry...Actually, we had a very easy entry at low tide. Mud and gravel were exposed, making it a stroll in the park.
We dropped down and fed Abby, then explored the kelp forest. It seemed every rock had serpulids, megalommas and Christmas Tree worms of every color. Rockfish, giant kelpfish, sculpins and blacksmith escorted us about the reef.
The water was as cold as a witch's...refrigerator. Jeff took his leaking drysuit back to the beach to warm up while a free-diving Divebum Don divebombed me from above.
My computer read 56.5F, but I'm sure my regulator was just about to freeze up. I spent 97 minutes in the icebox, then got out to find the Sun was setting and it was cold outside as well.
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Number 6 from the bottom "The collection of white tubes"... are they the remnants of a type of tube worm? Or are they still living deep inside? I've seen them before over on the 120 reef and have always wondered.
 
I'm liking the bass in the kelp. I might have missed an introduction somewhere but who is Abby?
 
Abby is Phil's token abalone that he feeds at Marineland. I have yet to be introduced to her in person, but I hope to soon :)
 

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