I sent Tunze an email. I found the paper work. Purchased march 17, 2017
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I would love to do a sleep over in an aquarium.
I will never dive. Debarquement syndrome...
Hey do you guys have pictures!?
thank you!Love this!
and this!!
Katie’s 6th ever dive, point lobos reserve. Already doing back rolls and making friends at 35feet
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Great photos!! I dove Pt. Lobos years ago. Still beautiful as ever!!
I am not able to dive due to a vertigo problemThere’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!