Dive on the Pinnacles, Carmel Bay, 7-15-2014

After a nice long surface interval complete with snickers bars and hot chocolate and a passing pod of Humpback whales,  Greg Hoberg and I made a second dive in Carmel Bay today on the Pinnacles.  Visibility was still a good 30 ft but had decreased by almost 50% from the morning dive.  We dived a new part of the Pinnacles and saw several nice sized lingcod and were dive bombed by a passing sea lion.

 China rockfish, cool color patterns on these guys.

 The Pinnacles are a no take marine preserve, so there are lots of nice lingcod to see.

 Large lingcod swings past.

 Greg getting a lingcod closeup.

The sea lion was curious but only came by at speed...

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