Two fun dives with 00Wabbit and a couple other friends whose SB monikers escape me just now.
It was a low enough tide when we arrived that we watched someone give up trying to launch a boat & drive away for the day.
There was a small swell coming in that yielded a little surge, but nothing serious.
The viz was very good 35 to 40+ feet. The water was chilly---I logged 49F, but my buddies said 48F.
Our first dive was to Hole In the Wall and Lone Metridium. There weren't a lot of fish about, mostly rockfish in crevices, a couple of Lingcode and some nice schools of senoritas and tube snout toward the end of the dive. Is it me, or is Lone Metridium getting smaller and moving further west along the wall? Bottom time 61 minutes, max depth 64F, temperature 49 to 58F
For our second dive we wove our way through the kelp to Coal Chute and visited the first cave. There were a bunch of blue rockfish in the cave. We then headed west out of the cove then turned to a north (magnetic) heading and got to the near end of Granite Point wall. We then turned on a south/south west heading over the sand and across middle reef. There were surfperch, lingcod, rockfish and I followed a Sheephead for a bit too. Bottom time 66 minutes, max depth 62 feet, temperature 51 to 57F.
The wave model says it will be even better tomorrow, so go diving tomorrow if you can. I stopped on the way home and got my tanks filled just on the off chance I can go again tomorrow...but am pretty tired out and may play with my video tomorrow instead.