ScubaJess, Laura (not a member here, but hopefully soon) and I went to Cove2 today. We were going to go to the Junk Yard, but the winds kept us to the cove.
Dive 1: Plan was to check out the squat lobsters and maybe some stubby squid eggs living in the rockpile uphill and north from the I-Beams. We came across a huge pile of green urchins at about 60' -- unusual! We found what looked to be an octo on eggs nearby as well (white octo, but we didn't look close enough to see the eggs). Oops, guess its been a while since I was doing deeper dives in cove2, because I totally mis-nav'd the dive and ended up on a dolphin rather than the rockpile. A little deeper than I would have liked. We did see a red brotula (!!) and I also saw a small market squid, but my camera wasn't focusing(!).
Dive 2: nice relaxing dive to the honeybear. There was an octo under the bow as usual, and another near by as well. We saw no gunnels in the shallow rockpile, wheras a couple weeks ago we saw over a dozen. Highlights of the dive were the pairs of gunnels and the red sausage jelly shown below. There were no decorated warbonnets in the usual locations. Hope they're ok. The best pilings are more covered with barnacles now, where they used to be covered more with sponges.
Oh, and we saw coulterboy on the surface interval. Great to see him!
