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Not on my phone or on cloud- but here’s San Carlos beach. A planning time lapse from when they were pretty new. I stuck my GoPro on top of a 30 minute egg timer.
I actually set that rig up underwater in a field of tube anemones, along with a sign detailing a scientific experiment I progress. Two hours later, I see the sign floating away and a trail of bubbles going to opposite direction. Never did get it back
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Katie’s 6th ever dive, point lobos reserve. Already doing back rolls and making friends at 35feet
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@neilp2006 thank you for sharing those incredible pictures of what had to be an epic experience! Your admiration for Katie always shows in the way you write about her and I just love that!
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thank you!
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Tunze is going to send me a replacement for my Tunze 6055! That just astounds me!
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Katie’s 6th ever dive, point lobos reserve. Already doing back rolls and making friends at 35feet
Pt. Lobos - worlds top 10 dive sites (my opinion of course) with Monastery Beach probably top 1 or 2 if Mother Nature graces you with a dive opportunity!
I do not have any video's but dive a lot in the same area that @neilp2006 has shown. Lovers point, Otter Cove, Pt. Lobos, Still Water Cove, etc. I used to dive a lot off the Cypress Sea boat but sadly that charter is no more. The thing that raises Monterey diving to the best in the world is the colors, schools of fish, and bull kelp forests. It is surreal when you are at 90 to 110' depth and flip over on your back gently floating looking through the kelp forests reaching from the bottom to the top.
Wild life of course is otters, sea lions, dolphins, and a lot of big and small fish
Woot! Busy week!We did a crazy amount of work the last 2 days. Removed a sky light from my room and patched the roof.
Trimmed several trees, cleaned the gutters.
Then let the 14 year old use the lift to blow off the construction scraps. He loved it!
Weeded the hosta garden, sawed off lots of ugly branches from an evergreen. Planted the pots. I will share pictures when the rain slows down.
Lol, bet he had fun!
Pt. Lobos - worlds top 10 dive sites (my opinion of course) with Monastery Beach probably top 1 or 2 if Mother Nature graces you with a dive opportunity!
I do not have any video's but dive a lot in the same area that @neilp2006 has shown. Lovers point, Otter Cove, Pt. Lobos, Still Water Cove, etc. I used to dive a lot off the Cypress Sea boat but sadly that charter is no more. The thing that raises Monterey diving to the best in the world is the colors, schools of fish, and bull kelp forests. It is surreal when you are at 90 to 110' depth and flip over on your back gently floating looking through the kelp forests reaching from the bottom to the top.
Wild life of course is otters, sea lions, dolphins, and a lot of big and small fish
Cypress sea was/is my fav dive boat.
If you dove off of it more than 3 times in 2012, we have met. We were in that boat every second weekend practically the entire year
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Wild life of course is otters, sea lions, dolphins, and a lot of big and small fish
Don’t forget the occasional grey whale coming up to middle reef, 30ft in the sand channel. And the great whites.
We were on surface interval after a great 2 hour shallow dive on the top of middle reef, when 2 other divers (friends of ours) came rolling in FAST on their X-scooters, proclaiming to all around about the 20ft grey whale just 50ft out of whalers cove. It turned out to be a new mom looking for her calf, who had swum up the square channel off to the left just past the point. We could dip our heads under and listen to them calling to each other for 5-6 minutes until we saw them reunite at the surface and slowly swim off.
We hoofed it up to the bluff with the binoculars and watched them join a small group about a mile offshore and swim south.
And the time when a dive boat from down south came up to dive around the MBARI intakes, and saw a juvy great white shark. Patrolling. Back and forth. They booked it south to pt lobos, since it was 1) FAR away and 2) protected from the migration route. When they arrived, the docent reminded them that they couldn’t anchor in the cove, then pointed out the baby seals on the far beach. Except he didn’t call them baby seals, he referred to them as ‘great white snacks’, and chuckled as he told them ‘we ARE the migration route’, and that he had watched that great white swim up north a couple hours ago.
Great memories.
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That is pretty amazing. Never saw a whale while diving but know they are present and how they navigate around the bay, why they do it, etc. Orca's and Great Whites like you say hunt so always aware especially when on a boat vs. shore diving. Although we got bombed a few times in the early morning when dolphins chased or whatever they do the bait balls towards the shore for breakfast. They make a huge mess with zero visibility as they heard the food to the beach so they can catch a lot easier.
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Oh my gosh, such wonderful adventures. I used to dream of doing stuff like that. But when we were in California I did not want to go in the water.
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you made my day brighter! No apologies!
Oh my gosh, such wonderful adventures. I used to dream of doing stuff like that. But when we were in California I did not want to go in the water.
There’s no better time than now to head down to the nearest scuba place and get your card... you have at least 1 Florida wreck diving and one NorCal kelp buddy ready to go!
They ain’t mine, but I do have a bunch like that *somewhere*... three laptops ago.
My happy place. Taught my girlfriend to dive so I could introduce her to pt lobos, then proposed to her there a few years later after she graduated her PhD.
We have some commissioned art hanging in our home that takes us back there
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Have I shared this with you guys? I had CT scans of the brain in 2011 and 2015 and I was told by the ER doctors the scans were negative. However the reports stated I had a lesion on the brain, growing a little bigger each time. I only recently saw the reports myself. I was not told about the brain tumor until August 2018 when the ER doctor told me. And she told me as if I already knew the results.
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I am not able to dive due to a vertigo problem
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