I met up with cardiver for 1 dive at around 8:30. Our plan was to dive the bottle field. Visibility on the surface was horrible. I could not even see my own fins. We dropped at the end of the pier and when I finally reached the bottom, cardiver was nowhere to be found. I did a quick 360 scan and saw his light about 20 feet down-slope. I thought weird but, whatever and swam down to his position.
We had a great dive in the bottle field. Octopuses were everywhere. It almost got old. "gee look, another octopus." Actually, I do really love to just watching them crawl about and could spend hours if I had the gas and NDC time. There were also quite a few stubby squid including one holding a shrimp that was about his same size. We came up from the bottle field and cruised to the north-east checking out the various critters on the way. I think cardiver was trying to practice his crabbing skills on some of the larger red rock crab. Back at the end of the pier there were huge schools of tubesnouts which was pretty cool.
When we got back to the parking lot, we saw the same 2 guys that had entered the water about the same time that we did. They dropped near the entry rather than surfacing swimming to the end of the pier. A quick conversation revealed why cardiver was not waiting for me at the end of the pier when we first descended. We descended just as these guys were passing by and cardiver thought one of them was me. As I understand it, they had a little light signaling duel about where to go, cardiver insisting that they head to the bottle field and this other guy insisting that they do the north rope. Cardiver is becoming too reliant on my blue fins for Id. I think I need to switch to pink with Hello Kitty stickers.
Night of the Cephalopods - Redondo 6/30
Night of the Cephalopods - Redondo 6/30
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Re: Night of the Cephalopods - Redondo 6/30
Wait a minu... oh, that's okay. Mine are black and yellow.gutholmj wrote:I think I need to switch to pink with Hello Kitty stickers.
Thanks for the report and great photos.
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Re: Night of the Cephalopods - Redondo 6/30
That blue-tinged octo looks like it belongs on a velvet painting.
Nice pics.
Nice pics.
Re: Night of the Cephalopods - Redondo 6/30
Spatman can loan you his.gutholmj wrote:...I think I need to switch to pink with Hello Kitty stickers.
(nice pics btw....)
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Re: Night of the Cephalopods - Redondo 6/30
If you are talking about the 2nd photo, that is a stubby squid, not an octo at all.Old Nubbins wrote:That blue-tinged octo looks like it belongs on a velvet painting.
Nice pics.
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Re: Night of the Cephalopods - Redondo 6/30
Here's another shot of that same octo. I was having camera issues due to operator error so I only got a few shots...
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Re: Night of the Cephalopods - Redondo 6/30
Not even just a little bit?coachrenz wrote:
If you are talking about the 2nd photo, that is a stubby squid, not an octo at all.
Re: Night of the Cephalopods - Redondo 6/30
Those are some really nice pictures
Re: Night of the Cephalopods - Redondo 6/30
Nice shots guys!
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