Returned from car trip to California, managed to squeeze in two days of diving at Anacapa Island, part of the Channel Islands National Park. Some strobe issues involving Olympus FL-LM3 flash, which sits on top of the camera inside the housing. It quit on me again, this was already second replacement, and in service only few weeks, so I though I was OK. Well, this little pice of equipment when it fails, makes the two larger and expensive strobes outside the housing useless. They don't fire neither. I did bring along another one, but it was waiting for me in a motel room on shore for the second day of diving. It quit at the end of second dive, not all was wasted, and on the third dive of the day I stayed shallow as to use ambient light. I did enjoy seeing critters I don't see on my Whidbey dives. But I was surprised that in spite of being protected area, there were few fish milling around. I remember seeing schools in the old days (film and younger age), and water felt very cold, us diving in rental wetsuits. The crew of the Specter were professional and helpful , although the dive briefing were good, on promises of marine life waiting for us overly optimistic. Never saw the huge schools of fish circling around, the 50lbs lobsters crawling in the open, or the Giant sea bass. Visibility also varied, not great during our two days there. The marine layer hanging over us until the end of third dive did no help. But it was nice to change the underwater scenery, if only for couple days. Maya was, as always, great dive buddy.
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