A few of us met up for the first offical ThThTh of 2018. Tom Nic, Pogiguy, Vadsam, Scuba Swanie, and Kelli (sp), and special guest EJ! all met at Redondo. Everyone but myself and EJ met there earlier and had already done a dive or two or three. Vis was decent, 15' or so. EJ and I headed south on a lumpy hunt, and she spotted a red one! We also found 3 different snailfish, along with all the other usual characters. Here are a few photos.
This lumpy has some white spots on him that look like possible disease?
Here are some very small Barnacle Eating Nudis, doing what they do best...
Two of the 3 snailfish we found
And one of my favorites, Stubby Squid
Of course, the last dive was at good ole Billy McHales
Great meeting some of our new club members, and awesome having EJ as a dive buddy!
ThThTh 1/04/2018
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Thanks for the report Gdog!
What a treat to see EJ! It had been a LONG time!
Pogiguy05 and myself just about wore ourself out with 2 dives at TTN and 2 more at Redondo.
Dive 1 at Redondo we went South and down to the bottle field in the 70 fsw range, and there was this weird silt out - viz about 3'. Above 40 it was OK, but nothing to write home about. Last dive we went the Black Pearl Line to the VW and back, viz much better, and the usual critters out.
I'll toss a few pictures out....
Stubbies are always fun!
Cool parasite on this Starfish arm
Saw more than a half dozen of these Pacific Staghorn Sculpin - can't remember seeing this many in awhile.
And a couple more...
What a treat to see EJ! It had been a LONG time!
Pogiguy05 and myself just about wore ourself out with 2 dives at TTN and 2 more at Redondo.
Dive 1 at Redondo we went South and down to the bottle field in the 70 fsw range, and there was this weird silt out - viz about 3'. Above 40 it was OK, but nothing to write home about. Last dive we went the Black Pearl Line to the VW and back, viz much better, and the usual critters out.
I'll toss a few pictures out....
Stubbies are always fun!
Cool parasite on this Starfish arm
Saw more than a half dozen of these Pacific Staghorn Sculpin - can't remember seeing this many in awhile.
And a couple more...
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Re: ThThTh 1/04/2018
A red lumpy and two snailfish! That's a great dive!
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Oh I forgot to mention, we saw 2 different market squid in the water column, both were eating on a fish. They were busy munching, but whenever I tried to get into position for a photo, they would zoom a little ways away and keep munching. I finally gave up.
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Here's a couple more shots from the second dive at Redondo.
These guys are so cute! They remind me of a puppy....
Blade Shrimp? Sure looks like one!
And who doesn't love a little Gruntie!??
And this common, but beautiful Nudibranch was posing very nicely!
These guys are so cute! They remind me of a puppy....
Blade Shrimp? Sure looks like one!
And who doesn't love a little Gruntie!??
And this common, but beautiful Nudibranch was posing very nicely!
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"Warning: No dive masters are going to be there, Just a bunch of old fat guys taking pictures of fish." -Bassman
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"Warning: No dive masters are going to be there, Just a bunch of old fat guys taking pictures of fish." -Bassman
Re: ThThTh 1/04/2018
Awesome snaps all around! Hope to see you guys next ththth :-)
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Re: ThThTh 1/04/2018
Good job, not a bad shot in the bunch !
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Re: ThThTh 1/04/2018
Are you coming to ThThTh? So we’ll get to see the new dive mobile.ScubaJess wrote:Awesome snaps all around! Hope to see you guys next ththth :-)
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Re: ThThTh 1/04/2018
Amazing photos!! Thanks so much for sharing!!