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Hooked up with Valerie for an after-work splash this evening. As we were gearing up she said her goal for this dive was to find a stubby squid. Found two, actually ... here's one of 'em ...

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We also found a large snailfish in a jar ...

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a bunch of tiny red shrimp ...

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... and ... well ... I just seem to keep interrupting the natives while they're busy repopulatin' the place ...

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Another fine evening spend kickin' around the local mudhole ...

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Thanks for posting. Wow, I miss that place...and diving it with Tim.
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Huskychemist wrote:Thanks for posting. Wow, I miss that place...and diving it with Tim.
I'll trade ya ... :supz:

Redondo's been consistently good this year, but I think I could handle where you're at (been enjoyin' your pics too) ...

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Nice shots, Bob. How is the vis?
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Blitz wrote:Nice shots, Bob. How is the vis?
A bit murky tonight ... maybe 15 feet. Still lots of runoff coming down the pipe.

BTW - ordered my new camera setup today ... hope to be putting up some wide angle shots in a coupla weeks.

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Grateful Diver wrote:
Blitz wrote:Nice shots, Bob. How is the vis?
A bit murky tonight ... maybe 15 feet. Still lots of runoff coming down the pipe.

BTW - ordered my new camera setup today ... hope to be putting up some wide angle shots in a coupla weeks.

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The new setup is a Canon G10 with Fisheye FIX housing, 15mm wide-angle port, YS-110a strobe and dual Ultralite strobe arms ... I'm going to use my little YS-25 as a slave strobe for the other side. Now that I've gotten some nice macro shots from Redondo, I'd like to complete the "scenery" with some shots of structure and divers. Hopefully this new setup will give me some quality wide-angle capability.

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WOW, Must be nice to have such deep pockets! That is one unusual and pricey housing. Hope it works out.
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Don't forget we saw this wee guy...
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And this cute little pygmy poacher, which just happened to be in front of two sprigs of somthing, that made him look like he had two enormous horns.

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Dusty2 wrote:WOW, Must be nice to have such deep pockets! That is one unusual and pricey housing. Hope it works out.
perhaps bob works his ass off so he can affors new toys. i know i do,








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Burntchef wrote:
Dusty2 wrote:WOW, Must be nice to have such deep pockets! That is one unusual and pricey housing. Hope it works out.
perhaps bob works his ass off so he can affors new toys. i know i do,

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This is one thread hijack that can stop now. This doesn't need to turn into statements about who has what money, who works hard, or who's luckier than who. Let's turn the discussion back to the primary topic.
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Totally agreed. Sorry, I shouldn't even have responded
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