Nice dive off the west side of Lover's Point with Guy Foster, July 19, 2015.

Yesterday I took Guy on his first dive since his PADI open water certification (together with his daughter Tessa) a couple of weeks ago.  We had calm conditions and 15 to 20 ft of visibility.  Guy is an experienced snorkler which always helps people rapidly progress with scuba diving.  Water temperature by Guy's fancy new computer ranged from 66 degrees at the surface to 56 degrees down 32 ft, my computer showed 59 degrees.  With 7 mm suits cold was no issue.  I again was very pleased to see dense kelp everywhere it should be in summer and only one medium sized sea urchin and no small sea urchins.  The sea otters are hammering the grown urchins and the renewed population of bat stars, spiny sea stars, and, very happy to see, ochre sea stars.  Still no sign of any sunflower stars, they were dense in this area before the sea star wasting virus and now seem to be locally extinct.  Hope they get re-established.

To see the pictures from this dive please go to:
https://plus.google.com/photos/110159573286645489662/albums/6173744626657754257?authkey=CPmGjJ6g1IzfzwE

 Guy assuring me that he is doing fine and not about to die.  He was right about that!

 Guy swims through a kelp bed.

 Guy checks out a well camouflaged painted greenling, about 1/3 up and 1/3 from the left.

 Guy with a few (sand) dollars more...

 Guy enjoys one of the large rock structures scattered through the area.

 Guy (ya, he's barely in the upper right corner) checks out a well decorated decorator crab, can you find it?

 I (nearly) caught a shot of Guy swimming across his first lingcod.

Guy points at a 5 inch long Hornyhead Turbot, first I've seen.