11/25/2007 - Redondo Beach After Sunrise

Watching grass grow. Reading War and Peace in one sitting. Attending an Amway lecture. These are all things that are more fun than diving Redondo Canyon during the day. For some unexplained reason, today was different. The water was cold, 55F. There was a level of red tide down to 27 feet. Below that, the visibility opened up to more than 20 feet and every clump of algae seemed to hold enough marine life to keep my interest. Small red octopus, squid eggs, feather duster worms, several species of nudibranchs and hydroids were showing off for us. Jeff Shaw found four octopus while I had my head buried in Nudi Land. Merry lifted a large dead halibut to see what it looked like on the bottom.
It turned out to be Jeff's longest dive at 75 minutes. I could have stayed down forever if it weren't for the cold, and the fact that we weren't moving much. I'll never say anything derogatory about Vet's in the daytime again. :)