This was as good of a dive as I've ever had at Breakwater. By Sunday morning, predictions subsided to 6-8ft west swell, and breakwater was calm, sunny, and chock full of classes and dive teams. We were initially worried that the constant churning of the seas during the week would result in low visibility, but things turned out to be much, much better than expected.
We made a LONG kick along the breakwater wall out to the barge. We were a bit unsure of where to take off from the wall, so we traveled nearly the entire length before doubling back and searching for the line. Along the way, we were divebombed multiple times by huge sea lions and visited by friendly cormorants. The barge itself was pretty cool, there's not much left but a flattened wooden frame, but you can definitely make out some interesting structure, steel rivets, etc. And as it sits by itself in the sand, the barge is great shelter for some really big rockfish, greenlings and cabazon. On the way back, we hung out shallow along the breakwater, where apparently there is some beautiful boulder and kelp coverage that I never knew was there. There's always something new to see, even at the old, familiar sites.
We made a LONG kick along the breakwater wall out to the barge. We were a bit unsure of where to take off from the wall, so we traveled nearly the entire length before doubling back and searching for the line. Along the way, we were divebombed multiple times by huge sea lions and visited by friendly cormorants. The barge itself was pretty cool, there's not much left but a flattened wooden frame, but you can definitely make out some interesting structure, steel rivets, etc. And as it sits by itself in the sand, the barge is great shelter for some really big rockfish, greenlings and cabazon. On the way back, we hung out shallow along the breakwater, where apparently there is some beautiful boulder and kelp coverage that I never knew was there. There's always something new to see, even at the old, familiar sites.
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