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After posting and getting info and connections, Long Islander Billsreef joined trappist, Jens and I for a couple of dives on a beautiful, sunny and warm day at Pebble Beach on the lee side of Cape Ann Sunday, the 6th.
The northeast winds on the other side of the Cape drove quite a few other divers to the calmer area of Pebble that day. A couple of dive classes were seen. Perhaps a dozen other divers came and went. Lots of people enjoyed the beach. There was a Summer of '42 kind of tranquility that day....
I guess this isn't so much a dive report as an expression of gratitude for days so special they become timeless....
Anyway, we did two dives of 75 and 68 minutes, max depths to about 30'. Vis was still poor from recent storms, about 3-7', maybe 10' a couple hundred yards out. Water temp right around 60 degrees.
Only one-foot waves, but rollers building to a couple feet were just enough to bowl a diver over as his feet slipped on the rounded loose pebbles that give the beach its name. It had been a while since I last got dumped....
We saw only one flounder, quite a few short lobsters, a couple oversized lobsters, a few pipe fish, some moon snails and some rock crabs. Two keeper lobsters for trappist, a few rock crabs for me to try for the first time. (They were great!)
One high point.... While I was demonstrating extraction techniques to trappist, we got to hear a bizarre spine-chilling lobster-scream. Actually, that was me, screaming when the oversized lobster did some kind of Cirque du Soleil freak show contortion trick to put the old wire cutters on my fingertip! I still have a nice line-bruise under my nail! :shocked2:
When not in the water, we spent quite a bit of time hanging out at the staging area above the beach, just shooting the breeze and enjoying the perfect weather.
Pics follow.
Dave C
Already ten cars of divers at 6:45am!
Calm here, while the north side of the Cape was blown out apparently.
Billsreef.
Arcane knowledge being shared.... Jens, Bill, trappist.
Trappist pulling a lobster out.
Later, a different one, unfortunately she was an egger, not to mention too big to keep!
Trappist and billsreef in low vis surge near shore.
Billsreef. Vis was still better than Long Island Sound, he said.
Rollers from the south could surprise you!
After posting and getting info and connections, Long Islander Billsreef joined trappist, Jens and I for a couple of dives on a beautiful, sunny and warm day at Pebble Beach on the lee side of Cape Ann Sunday, the 6th.
The northeast winds on the other side of the Cape drove quite a few other divers to the calmer area of Pebble that day. A couple of dive classes were seen. Perhaps a dozen other divers came and went. Lots of people enjoyed the beach. There was a Summer of '42 kind of tranquility that day....
I guess this isn't so much a dive report as an expression of gratitude for days so special they become timeless....
Anyway, we did two dives of 75 and 68 minutes, max depths to about 30'. Vis was still poor from recent storms, about 3-7', maybe 10' a couple hundred yards out. Water temp right around 60 degrees.
Only one-foot waves, but rollers building to a couple feet were just enough to bowl a diver over as his feet slipped on the rounded loose pebbles that give the beach its name. It had been a while since I last got dumped....
We saw only one flounder, quite a few short lobsters, a couple oversized lobsters, a few pipe fish, some moon snails and some rock crabs. Two keeper lobsters for trappist, a few rock crabs for me to try for the first time. (They were great!)
One high point.... While I was demonstrating extraction techniques to trappist, we got to hear a bizarre spine-chilling lobster-scream. Actually, that was me, screaming when the oversized lobster did some kind of Cirque du Soleil freak show contortion trick to put the old wire cutters on my fingertip! I still have a nice line-bruise under my nail! :shocked2:
When not in the water, we spent quite a bit of time hanging out at the staging area above the beach, just shooting the breeze and enjoying the perfect weather.
Pics follow.
Dave C
Already ten cars of divers at 6:45am!
Calm here, while the north side of the Cape was blown out apparently.
Billsreef.
Arcane knowledge being shared.... Jens, Bill, trappist.
Trappist pulling a lobster out.
Later, a different one, unfortunately she was an egger, not to mention too big to keep!
Trappist and billsreef in low vis surge near shore.
Billsreef. Vis was still better than Long Island Sound, he said.
Rollers from the south could surprise you!
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Waiting for trappist and Dave to dig out that lobster wasn't so bad, plenty to see in the area, and what I was really waiting to see was just how big that lobster was for you guys to be spending so much time digging it out 
