On arrival I sprinted to the restroom(hey it's along drive!)I immediately headed for the water to get a sense of the current.
No raging water in front of the pilings-Woohoo! A little windy & choppy but off to the southeast the sun was breaking though the clouds. A quick prayer to the sun gods & time to gear up.
Diver #1 in a new to her used dry suit that's older than most of my children, bubble check, bubbles from crotch area-no it wasn't gas-she's not that kinda girl! Diver #2 brand new DUI purchased from someone who bought it & never used it. Weight check, more weight,weight check more weight-OK-Diver #1 opts out & goes back to put a wetsuit on for dive 2 & we hit the pilings(3 of us total)Easy swim to the pilings, no current at all. The regular free divers were out there. I admire there grit. Personally I need air!
1st pretty cool siting is unnamed by me(some help here??) but looks like someones nervous system-real nice color
The current was very light, do I dare,A couple of tech divers(a gear guess) came by & headed the way i planned it. We were off headed for the Jetty-I used mostly depth to keep my heading & checked the compass once in a while. A vey light current picked us up & we glided across the flats. i have to say I expeced it to be barren. It was more like gound cover in a garden.
Lots of cool stuff along the way & more fish than I've seen in the last few weeks. I missed a pic of a small school of fish that were shaped like surf perch but had spots similiar to a female kelp greenling-very cool looking-Lots-o-female kelp greenling by the way & some intimidating Ling's.
After a fin assist at shore & peeling the gear off we found the wrist seals on our used DUI were a little too loose from the previous owner-no dive 2 for diver #2-We'll be adding some DC drygloves to this unit so I don't get in any more trouble.
Dive 2 was no less entertaining-2 wetsuit divers & 1 dry-this was an out & back on the Jetty-My husband & wife buddies are notorious for not staying together so when I saw the wife wide eyed & shoulders shrugging, I knew hubby was gone. I was the lead dog here so i flashed my light back towards shore as a beacon-you all know the drill-1 minute-noones home-up we went-no hubby on the surface-Honey is starting to hyperventilate now cause lead dog killed her husband(damn I was in trouble on the last dive!)Appx 3 REALLY long minutes later he came up. mask kept flooding-had hair under the top. honey fixed hubby's hair & took a few minutes to calm down. We dropped again & had a semi normal dive. I think everyone learned something here today. I found some cool onion rings which I now know to be Nudi eggs
There was this grumpy guy who was urchin me to ask the sea lemon what kinda tiny nudi this was was but the lemon didn't know-Do any of you?
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