It was a good decision.
It was a beautiful day to be out and about, and on and under the water! Even though we arrived pretty late in the afternoon the winds weren't too bad, and the water was beautiful! The forecast (since proven true) was looking ominous so we figured we better get some diving in before we have to go into our full Winter diving mode. Viz looked promising as we drove along 101, and other than a halocline from the creek things looked really good on the surface swim as well.
We dropped once we lost sight of the bottom from the surface, and as we moved quickly downslope it was very evident that we were in for some amazing conditions! Viz was a solid 40' plus, and the critters were out in force. We found abundant Copper Rockfish, the usual bazillion Blackeyed Gobies, and a few Golden Dironas to go with the thousands of Flabellina triophina.
The Flabellinas seemed to have moved down on the wall somewhat, and were deeper than the last time I dove here. Usually they are clustered around 40-50 fsw, but they were down to the 70-80 fsw range this time.
Poor Bassman... Every time he sees a "hillside" of Flabellinas he is like "Oh :angry: we are going to be here for a long time...". It is hazardous diving with a photog...
We hit the bottom of the main wall at about 112 fsw and worked our way back up. We came to the top of the wall at about 50 - 60 fsw and found this guy tucked back in a crevice digesting a BUNCH of crab!
Above this lower wall is a barren stretch, then a shallow wall starts at about 30 fsw. Every dive I've done here in the past it has been clear deep and the then the top 40 fsw has been 5' or less viz with the hallacious algae blooms that were happening. This time we were fortunate enough to find the entire dive clear all the way up to the halocline! Buck was disappointed when the deep wall ended, then pleasantly surprised to find that there was a shallow wall as well - he had dove here before but had never seen it!
A fabulous 58 minutes later we surfaced to sunshine and laughter, very pleased with an excellent dive.
A few pics from the dive are here .
Time to head for Octopus Hole!!
). I loved Jorsted Creek, the one time I dove it, and wish the access were a bit easier, but it's really the same with Octopus Hole, which I've done twice, but on neither dive could we see our fingers at the ends of our arms 
ing old bottles.r u free moday for water front dive saw at least three different speices of nudies and a lump sucker on Friday on the water front 
vis has been 20or better and that was with incoming tide
