Sunday was a Lobos day with Ted. Lots of visitors were in the park, and not too many divers--pretty much the regular crowd.
We spent a few minutes admiring the Lees' new, completely decked out, customized, loaded, and not-at-all-offputting-or-creepy dive van:
The weather machine was seriously on the fritz today, as there was a thick fog cover throughout Carmel (and 90+ degree temperatures in Watsonville back afterwards).
Well, it seems like the haze fell from the sky into the water; after a short, sunny surface kick, we descended back into a milky white fog, and pretty much got ourselves immediately lost. So much for making it out to the 3 Sisters. Still, we took a bearing and started kicking, and after 20 minutes or so found ourselves at Sea Mount. Wow. So we headed to Beto's Reef instead, and ran into a scooter team on their way back in. It's pretty awesome swimming out there by yourselves, and suddenly seeing a gaggle of bright headlights coming at you!
After a short stint on the deep end, we made our way back to Middle Reef and Coal Chute Cove, where we spent the next two hours checking out various dead jelly parts (so that's what's been feeding the huge schools of blue rockfish) and almost falling onto the largest lingcod I've seen at Lobos. It was so big it just sat there ignoring us for the entire 5 minutes we circled it.
Just goes to show, you don't need great viz to have a great dive
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I came home to find that Rodney was the featured bunny on dailybunny.org. So Blueberry gets the spotlight to herself this time.
We spent a few minutes admiring the Lees' new, completely decked out, customized, loaded, and not-at-all-offputting-or-creepy dive van:
The weather machine was seriously on the fritz today, as there was a thick fog cover throughout Carmel (and 90+ degree temperatures in Watsonville back afterwards).
Well, it seems like the haze fell from the sky into the water; after a short, sunny surface kick, we descended back into a milky white fog, and pretty much got ourselves immediately lost. So much for making it out to the 3 Sisters. Still, we took a bearing and started kicking, and after 20 minutes or so found ourselves at Sea Mount. Wow. So we headed to Beto's Reef instead, and ran into a scooter team on their way back in. It's pretty awesome swimming out there by yourselves, and suddenly seeing a gaggle of bright headlights coming at you!
After a short stint on the deep end, we made our way back to Middle Reef and Coal Chute Cove, where we spent the next two hours checking out various dead jelly parts (so that's what's been feeding the huge schools of blue rockfish) and almost falling onto the largest lingcod I've seen at Lobos. It was so big it just sat there ignoring us for the entire 5 minutes we circled it.
Just goes to show, you don't need great viz to have a great dive
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I came home to find that Rodney was the featured bunny on dailybunny.org. So Blueberry gets the spotlight to herself this time.
