SoCalSwami Diving

1/28/2010 - T'was a 'time to get back in to the water dive' LJS-28Jan-10

Date: Thursday night, Jan 28th Location: Main wall, Crap Patch & Lion’s Den Surf:  2-3 ft Viz:  8-10ft After lamenting this long standing dry spell, the team decided a dive was required. Our objective was to survey the Vallecitos area, crap patch and Lion’s den and check for changes due to the last storm. Upon dropping into 31fsw North of the point, we decided to skip the point and check out the crap patch and Lion’s den. The patch offered up some nice sights including several fine nudibranch specimens: Janolus barbarensis, D. picta and T. maculata Also on display was a large number of rock fish; at one point I counted 6 juveniles within 3’ of each other. Nearing the ¾ point of the dive we arrived at the Lion’s Den to find the kelp forest depleted by intact. I counted at least 25 melibe on one of the 3 remaining long kelp strands, all looking a little haggard. On the exit I spied an active juvi Thornback  that was a bit camera shy, loads swimmer crabs and more rockfish. No waves on exit. Was  a nice ‘get back into the water’ dive. Mike Hallack http://s279.photobucket.com/albums/kk145/SoCalSwami/Diving2010/012810-shores/

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