Good day at Monastery North as well.
Lots of rip currents, but the waves weren't powerful enough to tumble you.
56F water to 60ft, sunny all day. Lots of kelp.
Called a dive at Butterfly house, because we didn't want to compete with kayak fishermen and spear fishermen. (plus that walk down to the entry is a lot more dicey after the rain)
Called out Carmel River too. Waves near the natural breakwater were a bit too big for my liking.
At Monastery we saw a few headless market squid carcasses, a dead mola, lone sea lion, an angel shark.
Also saw the edge of Carmel Canyon for the first time. I didn't know it sloped so gradually, always thought it was just a shear drop off.
One thing that's got my mind though was a school of transparent pipefish; you could their internal organs and skeleton. They were feeding on a swarm of mysids. Anyone know the ID?
Lots of rip currents, but the waves weren't powerful enough to tumble you.
56F water to 60ft, sunny all day. Lots of kelp.
Called a dive at Butterfly house, because we didn't want to compete with kayak fishermen and spear fishermen. (plus that walk down to the entry is a lot more dicey after the rain)
Called out Carmel River too. Waves near the natural breakwater were a bit too big for my liking.
At Monastery we saw a few headless market squid carcasses, a dead mola, lone sea lion, an angel shark.
Also saw the edge of Carmel Canyon for the first time. I didn't know it sloped so gradually, always thought it was just a shear drop off.
One thing that's got my mind though was a school of transparent pipefish; you could their internal organs and skeleton. They were feeding on a swarm of mysids. Anyone know the ID?