Met up with Mateo, H20Doc, Don Showalter, and dwinslow for an attempt at shore diving the fingers. After initially pulling into the wrong park we figured out where the state park was. The road down to the ranger house was barricaded but the chain slips off. So we drove down and knocked on the door...nobody home. We staged our gear at the picnic table, drove back up the hill, and replaced the gate. Donning our gear at the bottom of the hill ... It was time to dive!
Splashing in front of the cliff to the south of the house, the slope rapidly drops until you hit sheer cliffs and ravines. We quickly dropped to about 85 fsw and headed south. WOW!! The structure here is unbelievable! Canyon after canyon after cliff....finally hit a corner, look beyond it...and it just continues! And gets better!! Soon we hit a school of hundreds of rockfish all around us.
I have not seen structure this compelling since Karpata...and it's right in my backyard!
After the dive we ran into a group of divers (one of whom puts on the expo) who said the site is basically not current sensitive. In fact, they never check the tides when diving here. Plus we found out that our method of staging and parking is exactly what you're supposed to do.
In short....epic shore diving!! Better than DIW. I will be going back frequently and soon.
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Hope you do too.