Two dives at a new Pescadero Point dive site August 17, 2015

Greg Hoberg and I made two dives at a new site off Pescadero Point.  Sea conditions were very good but conditions were foggy.  Visibility averaged at least 25 ft.  54 degrees at the surface but a normal, fairly chilly 52 degrees at the bottom.  We had visits from a sea lion and harbor seal but I didn't get any decent shots of them.  The kelp bed in the area is significantly thinner than normal but still reasonably intact overall, the sea urchin infestation here is not as bad as at many of our sites.  We saw lingcod and cabezon as well as some cool sculpin and juvenile kelp greenling.  We found a really cool cave/cavern/submarine grotto on the first dive.  We also noticed several strands of giant kelp strewn across the bottom instead of floating upright like normal, don't know why it is doing that.  For more pictures from these two dives (the second dive at the site was decided upon when we could get our anchor extracted from the kelp at the end of the first dive...) please see:
https://plus.google.com/photos/110159573286645489662/albums/6184143121454314945?authkey=CK_6s7OzhPbBaA

 Painted Greenling with coralline algae.

 Blue lined Perch

 We found a beautiful swim through cavern.

 Can you find the sculpin?  Upper right corner.

 Can you find the kelpfish?  lowere center

 Egg yolk jellyfish, over easy.

 A pair of white dendronotid nudibranchs grazing on hydroids with a white, formerly orange lacy bryozoan that has just been devoured by the bat star.

 Greg with some of the large rock structure found off Pescadero Point.

Greg looking at the juvenile kelp greenling in the foreground.