NCD July dive

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Eric Sedletzky

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Just in case anybody from the Socal area happens to up in this neck of the woods and would like to check out what Northern California diving is all about, I would like to announce the North Coast Divers July Dive:

Place: Fisk Mill Cove South, Sonoma County (about 4 miles north of Salt Point State Park)
Date: Sunday, July 2nd
Time: 9:00 AM
Activity: Scuba and freediving (Note: Ab diving is off season in July)
Dive site description:
Fisk Mill Cove South is an intermediate to advanced dive site depending on conditions. The cove is about a quarter mile hike down an improved trail from the parking lot with a fairly tricky climb down a rocky slope to the water. There is a calm cove to enter the water and a sometimes challenging surface swim out to the diving area. This site is all rock and features some of the best underwater structure accessible as a beach dive on the Sonoma Coast. There are tons of fish for the avid hunter including big lings, reds, blues and others, and swim throughs, walls, hallways, and lots of growth and criters including puget sound crabs, giant pacific octopus, a variety of filter feeding organisms, and nudibranchs for the sightseer and photographer. If conditions present a challenge then I do not recommend trying to get sensitive camera equipment through the entry/exit zone because it could get banged up pretty good. The depth range is 35 to 70 feet depending how far out you go.

To get there:
Head north on hwy 1 from Jenner and go about 25 miles to Fisk Mill Cove. The entrance is well marked and once turning left into the main entrance make another left at the T and follow the road to the parking lot. There are restroom facilities and a great picnic area with barbecues and great pine and fir trees with ferns and shade and green grassy meadows. We will be having a picnic with award winning tri tip (just like Trish makes on the Peace dive boat, she taught me her secret), micro brew, and some assorted cold salads.

Not many people know about this place as a scuba diving spot so chances are we will have it all to ourselves.

Hope to see some southerners there, maybe. The offer's always open.

ZKY

Your Northern Connection.
 
I have got to wander up that way sometime. The July 4th weekend has more plans than days for me at this point!

That sounds like a fantastic place to dive! I hope someone from SoCal will be up there with a camera to come back and regale us with stories of the wild north!

Maybe a SoCal road trip/caravan of divers will be in order to come up and check it out sometime this summer!

Christian
 
headhunter:
I have got to wander up that way sometime.
Maybe a SoCal road trip/caravan of divers will be in order to come up and check it out sometime this summer!
Christian

August or september are great months up here and ab season is open again too. Can't come up here and not get an ab you know.
I'm still trying to find a slot of time to have my annual dive campout. Last year we had it at a place called Ocean Cove Campground just a few miles south of Fisk Mill. It's only $18 a night and you're right on the ocean with diving right there. Year after year we've had people from Socal and all over the state. Each year it grows bigger and bigger. I've even had them come from as far as Alabama!
This year it will be sponsored by the North Coast Divers, which as you may know, is a group structured and modelled after the Sandeaters.
I will post more info when I can figure out the dates.

ZKY
 

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