Date: July 11, 2008
Time: 5:15am
Location: Diver's Cove
Depth (feet): 35
Dive Time (minutes): 85
Surf (feet): 1
Surge (feet): 0-1
Water Temp (fahrenheit): 64
Visibility (feet): 10-15
Visibility Description: a little murky - overall pretty nice
Notes and Highlights: Dove with Josh - met Steve and Greg (nice to meet you both)...dropped down pretty quick and swam without lights for all of the dive 'cept for looking into stuff...nice vis for ambient dawn light. Moved slowly and quietly looking for sleeping bat rays - on the way out didn't see any sleepers, but about a half dozen flew by at different times like slow-moving ghosts in the murky light...cool. Went out to the end of the Diver's/Fisherman's reefs, passing over and around the deeper crevices. Quite a few schools of juvenile fish...mostly blacksmiths and senoritas...nesting garibaldis and honestly not a whole bunch else - slow day on the reefs. On our return trip I spotted a large Tylodina fungina that was conspicuously out in the open - must have known neither of us had our cameras...large enough and in a spot I may have finally gotten a decent shot. In the shallows on the return we hit the mother load of bat rays, probably 15-20 more...mostly large, and generally passive on the bottom. Bat rays are one of the best starts to a day...and overall a great time had by all.
Time: 5:15am
Location: Diver's Cove
Depth (feet): 35
Dive Time (minutes): 85
Surf (feet): 1
Surge (feet): 0-1
Water Temp (fahrenheit): 64
Visibility (feet): 10-15
Visibility Description: a little murky - overall pretty nice
Notes and Highlights: Dove with Josh - met Steve and Greg (nice to meet you both)...dropped down pretty quick and swam without lights for all of the dive 'cept for looking into stuff...nice vis for ambient dawn light. Moved slowly and quietly looking for sleeping bat rays - on the way out didn't see any sleepers, but about a half dozen flew by at different times like slow-moving ghosts in the murky light...cool. Went out to the end of the Diver's/Fisherman's reefs, passing over and around the deeper crevices. Quite a few schools of juvenile fish...mostly blacksmiths and senoritas...nesting garibaldis and honestly not a whole bunch else - slow day on the reefs. On our return trip I spotted a large Tylodina fungina that was conspicuously out in the open - must have known neither of us had our cameras...large enough and in a spot I may have finally gotten a decent shot. In the shallows on the return we hit the mother load of bat rays, probably 15-20 more...mostly large, and generally passive on the bottom. Bat rays are one of the best starts to a day...and overall a great time had by all.