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[Eric Sedletzky]

Hi all,

Just joined the board.
I have been lurking for a time now and it seems this board would be a good place to hang.
All my diving is in Monterey and up north. I have done a lot of exploration diving up on the North Coast so I think I can add something of value to scubaboard and provide some good reading.

Just to be clear, I consider Monterey to be Central California and everything north of San Francisco to be the North Coast. I know some of you may disagree but this is how I personally refer to it.

ZKY

 

[renpirate]

It's always good to find other divers along the North Coast.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

It's always good to find other divers along the North Coast.

I was the guy with the dark grey boat that day at Ocean Cove with Dale (scuba cowboy).
We'll have to get out there this spring and find some cool places to dive!

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

Monterey is Northern California. Anything north of Marin is Upstate California. ;-)

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

Monterey is Northern California. Anything north of Marin is Upstate California. ;-)

Monterey is at the northern end of the central region.

When I was living in San Luis Obispo that whole region was called the central coast. The central coast ranged from somewhere around Santa Maria up to around Santa Cruz. If you look on a map Monterey sits geographically in the central region.
I have never heard anybody refer to the northern area above San Francisco as "upstate".

If there is only Northern and Southern where would the break be?

I suppose if you compare Monterey to L.A. then yes it would seem very far north, but to someone who lives and dives 3-4 hours further north from Monterey it seems that Monterey is central. The diving doesn't stop at Monterey you know, there a whole more territory up on the "real" North Coast.

 

[renpirate]

I was the guy with the dark grey boat that day at Ocean Cove with Dale (scuba cowboy).
We'll have to get out there this spring and find some cool places to dive!

Oh Yeah! That boat is really cool! Just let me know when you want to go diving and I'm there!

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

Calling the bay area "southern california" is fighting words. NO WAY WE WANT TO BE
LUMPED WITH THOSE FOLKS DOWN SOUTH. So whereever it is, the boundary between
"northern california" and "southern california" is somewhere south of Monterey.

 

[JustinW]

When we kick LA out of California, exactly where should we draw the border line, I say on the south monterey county line. We can keep the artichokes and the strawberries, they can have the deserts and cactus. Personally, I dive the north coast more often then I dive monterey. My monterey dives consist primarily of sitting on the surface at the breakwater supervising the OW class

Just to settle it, we have already divided southern california and northern california on the board here. It is well understood that the low-calers are not allowed to claim monterey as their own. We keep that to ourselves, they are allowed to visit.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

I got it,
How bout drawing a line somewhere just north of San Luis Obispo, (they're mostly all from L.A. anyway now), let's say King City. Nobody cares about King City, and our wine is better than anything out of Paso Robles so they are useless also.

There, now everyone's happy

 

[DiveGolfSki]

I got it,
How bout drawing a line somewhere just north of San Luis Obispo, (they're mostly all from L.A. anyway now), let's say King City. Nobody cares about King City, and our wine is better than anything out of Paso Robles so they are useless also.

There, now everyone's happy

What are you all arguing about? Upstate California, Central California????? I'm from New York ... we all know there's no life, art or anything west of the Hudson River! Ask Ed Koch, the former majory

Okay, are there any good diving spots around SF or LA? Any LDS worth calling on?