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12/13/2008 - The weather started getting rough: LJS 12/13/2008

Date: 12/13/2008

Time in: 10:16am

Dive Location: San Deigo, California

Dive Sites: La Jolla Shores

Viz: 15'

Water Temp: 61°f constant all depths (Suunto)

Max Depth: 63'

Bottom time: 54 min.

Buddies: Rob C.

Met up with Rob C. in San Diego in hopes of blowing some bubbles before the next big storm blew in. Our first stop was Scripps pier, which was quicly scrubbed as a dive site for the day. Things looked much better down south so we headed to the main parking lot.

Gail force wind warnings, drizzle and ominious looking clouds did not deter dozens of divers including us. We suited up (my first dry suit shore dive in several years - definately the way to go today - though water was still a balmy 61) and headed through the surf with ease. After about 5 minutes of kicking, getting slapped in the back of the head by swell after swell got to be very old, so we descended to about 20' in the sand.

Viz was in the 15'+ range, no complaints by us. We soon hit the wall around 50' and took a sharp right heading north. Lots of small critters, including countless gobies, several constripe shrimp and fringehead. Only a few nudi's, including a D. Albo, a Lemon Dorid and a couple Spanish Shawls. Also saw several small California Sea Hares, but not as tiny as the ones I was seeing last month. Many octopus were visible - but stayed safely in their dwellings and didn't venture out to visit or pose for a mug shot.

We hung another sharp right to complete the final leg of our triangle, surfacing once we hit about 15' at which point I was running on fumes, and wanted to save some air for the surf zone. The wind swell and chop had increased, but we proceeded to another uneventful surf exit.

After getting back to the car we decided to call it a day - we had enough nice bubble memories to hopefully weather the storm. I spent a lot of time trying to get some decent pics of coonstripe shrimp and juvi sheephead, unfortanetly none of those shots turned out - so here's what I was able to salvage from the rest of the dive..

Octopus