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Written by John Leek
Well, I stood in the street at 6 pm and yelled "Any Dive Animals Here" But I was the only one. I had a buddy from work and there were 4 other sets of divers. The tide was way out. We walked halfway to the canyon
before putting on fins. The surf was 4" high. I have been in rougher
lakes. When we came out
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there was no surf at all.
Visibility was about 20'. The canyon was populated with tube worms open like big flowers. There were several cusp eels (actually a skinny fish) that would only tolerate so much inspection before squirming
backwards into the sand. We saw a 1/2' long nudibranch called Hermissenda crassicornis, and a yellow and orange navinax. If you
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don't know what they are look in http://slugsite.tierranet.com/steve
for pictures of critters found at La Jolla.
One guitarfish was so lazy I could touch him. I showed my buddy how one could turn off the lights and stroke a sea pen to make it glow blue-green.
Sorry folks. Didn't see a single squid egg case. We adjourned to Moon Doggies to eat lobster tacos without you.
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