What to do with a couple of days in San Diego in January?

[Sam Miller III]

I apologize for posting to this thread after the fact. Diving is certainly dependent on weather and first time visitors who have traveled from afar if the weather doesn't cooperates should have an alternate plan.

San Diego, Orange County and Los Angeles county were the fountain head - the birth place- of recreational diving in the US.

One area, La Jolla Cove was made famous and was the hunting grounds of the world famous Bottom Scratchers Spear fishing club, which was organized in 1932. What follows is a snippet from the US Magazine National Geographic in 1949

~~~~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs4QW2y2S5E ~~~~

As a visitor you could have visited and experienced a very historic location, long forgotten by the modern diver


SDM

 

[3D diver]

FWIW: I lived and dove in San Diego many years and winter diving was always hit and miss---passing storms can really kick up the surf and/or trash the vis. The La Jolla trench was often the only diveable site, but it's just a series of clay walls and ledges so not too exciting. (I did once have a large halibut follow me around like a puppy, though. That was cool!)