Greg Hoberg and I dived near the outer rock at Cypress Point and at a healthy kelp bed off Point Joe. We had 53 degree temperatures and 20 to 30 ft of visibility. We spotted some humpbacks feeding along the kelp beds in the bay north of Cypress Point and decided to dive a small kelp patch between the rocks off Cypress Point. During our dive we were looking up at a dive bombing sea lion when a humpback swam right over us! The humpback also swam right under us when we were back up at Greg's boat, but our cameras were already in the boat at that point.
Greg with our anchor. Greg typically repositions the anchor at the start of every dive so that we can get the anchor up to leave after our dive.
Almost a good picture of a diving sea lion....if he hadn't turned his head just as I pushed the shutter...
Look above and just to the right of the two sea urchins in the foreground to see a beautiful painted greenling just in front of a decorator crab.
The dive bombing sea lion caused us to look up just as the shadow of the huge humpback passed overhead.
So cool to see a humpback go by!
Greg with a large, patient lingcod.
To see more pictures from this dive please go to:
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Our second dive was at a healthy kelp bed that we dived for the first time last week off of Point Joe. It is a beautiful dive site with great rock structures, lots of shy sea otters, and due to the many otters, relatively few sea urchins and healthy stands of giant and bull kelp.
A beautiful cabezon on his perch.
Acorn barnacles
This is a beautiful dive site.
One of several lingcod we saw on this dive.
To see more pictures from our dive off Point Joe, please go to:
https://plus.google.com/photos/110159573286645489662/albums/6187854528161247809?authkey=CNPfpY-_zfaaBA
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