North Wall, Sat May 3, 2008
Met my buddy for a late morning dive. Arrived in the parking lot ~10:50AM and actually found a spot. There were a few turning over, so it isn’t “high summer season” yet on the parking, but the lot was basically full. Geared up under the hot sun - perhaps it is closer to summer than I thought - and marched, sweating to the beach. Entry was pretty easy - surf was modest with little punch.
Headed for North Wall - dropped in to ~35 FSW and had 5ft of vis. Headed west into the canyon - vis did not even start to improve until ~95ft and then started to open up to maybe 15-20? Perhaps deeper it was even better, but I wasn’t seeing much at 95 - being below the wall, so we went up to the wall ~70ft and poked along. Encountered 3 bat rays - making the vis even worse locally - then turned north and hopped over to way north wall. Vis there was comparable - although I dipped down to find it was starting to open at ~85feet, but by this time was running low on air and bottom time, so we headed back in.
We skipped the 2nd dive we had planned due to the crappy vis.
Map to Dive Site at SeaStarAdventures.com
Surf: 1-2 ft
Current: very little
Visibility: poor 5 ft average
Temp: 54 surface / 52 F at max depth
Tags: la jolla, La Jolla canyon, san diego, scuba diving, seastar adventures, shore dives
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