fnfalman
Contributor
I passed the open water portion of the NAUI Rescue Diver class. Scary, huh?:shocked2:
Gorgeous day at Catalina. Bird Rock was never better. Viz is easily 60-ft +, more likely 80-ft +. The kelps were green and healthy and stood straight up. Barely any surge at all and everything was just gorgeous. Alas, that's where we did the skin dive drills. Didn't get to scuba dive because the Great Escape moved to Isthmus Reef for the second dive. Good dive too, decent viz but it wasn't like Bird Rock, still very lovely.
3rd dive was at Lion Head. Another lovely dive site. I found a Spanish Shawl there. Gotta say that I've never seen a Spanish Shawl or any nudie on this side of Catalina before. Some nice fat lobsters & hermit crabs, lots of sardines. Jelly fish galore, we even saw a big purple jelly fish. It was torn up a bit so I don't know if it got partially eatened or what. The only mar to the awesome day was the dead baby mola mola that we found. Its dorsal fin was torn off. This fish was really small, maybe 1.5-ft long at most.
I was hoping to see a mola mola, but not this way.:depressed:
Anyway, this would be my last dive at Catalina for a while. Next week it'll be the Northern Channel Islands and then I'm Idaho & lake diving bound.
Gorgeous day at Catalina. Bird Rock was never better. Viz is easily 60-ft +, more likely 80-ft +. The kelps were green and healthy and stood straight up. Barely any surge at all and everything was just gorgeous. Alas, that's where we did the skin dive drills. Didn't get to scuba dive because the Great Escape moved to Isthmus Reef for the second dive. Good dive too, decent viz but it wasn't like Bird Rock, still very lovely.
3rd dive was at Lion Head. Another lovely dive site. I found a Spanish Shawl there. Gotta say that I've never seen a Spanish Shawl or any nudie on this side of Catalina before. Some nice fat lobsters & hermit crabs, lots of sardines. Jelly fish galore, we even saw a big purple jelly fish. It was torn up a bit so I don't know if it got partially eatened or what. The only mar to the awesome day was the dead baby mola mola that we found. Its dorsal fin was torn off. This fish was really small, maybe 1.5-ft long at most.
I was hoping to see a mola mola, but not this way.:depressed:
Anyway, this would be my last dive at Catalina for a while. Next week it'll be the Northern Channel Islands and then I'm Idaho & lake diving bound.
