Greg Hoberg and I had another fantastic day south of Monterey on Monday, November 25. We saw several groups of Humpback whales off Pt Pinos and in Carmel Bay and also a large group of Rizzo's Dolphins on the Carmel Canyon. We cruised at high speed on flat water down to Point Sur and then dived near an offshore rock about a half mile south of Pt Lobos (best combination of rock, kelp, and clear water we found). Not quite as clear as the previous day but still 35 ft visibility, beautiful.
Big Sur surface photos
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Offshore rock dive photos
We anchored in the kelp bed in 45 ft of water just to the south of the offshore rock.
Numerous lingcod.
Nice sized vermilion rockfish.
Cabezon tucked into coraline algae. Need to take a picture like this with natural light to show how well the cabezon matches the coralline algae color in normal light (no red in algae color normally at this depth)
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Our second dive was off a wash rock to the south and east of Cypress Point. You can't get to this rock when summer kelp is present and you wouldn't want to dive it except in exceptionally calm conditions. We've wanted to try this spot for a couple of years.
We found a nice sized cave with a horizontal entrance and a vertical chute exit. Pretty cool.
Greg with a lingcod.
Greg with another lingcod.
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