Scripps Canyon PM, Mon July 7, 2008
Met up at the usual place for the Scripps Canyon dive this evening. Our plan had been to have Dan, Darren, Jen and I dive as a group. We met at the buoy after ducking under some 4 foot waves before yanking on our fins and kicking like crazy to get beyond the surf zone. Luckily the surf didn’t turn out to be packing much of a punch and we made it out without any problems. We dropped down the buoy line around 7:30 pm and headed down along the wall to explore. As usual, Jen and I stopped to look for nudis. We saw white spotted porostome’s, san diego dorid’s, berthella californica’s, stearn’s aeolid’s, yellow edged cadlina’s, yellow spotted cadlina’s, macfarland’s chromodorid’s, hudson’s dorid, and the largest spanish shawl I have ever seen. There were tons of scorpion fish out and some beautiful red and golden gorgonians. The viz wasn’t great, about 10 feet with a max depth of 111. We still had a nice dive and a nice post-dive dinner with interesting converstation on nudibranch anatomy.
Marianne
Tags: la jolla, La Jolla canyon, san diego, scripps canyon, scuba diving, seastar adventures, shore dives
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