Enjoyable Dive at Otter Cove with Guy Foster October 17, 2020

 Last Saturday Guy Foster and I made our first shore dive in a long while, at Otter Cove.  We rediscovered how much work shore dives are, especially when you include up and down the stairs at Otter Cove and a significant surface swim out and back.  It was good to dive there again, visibility on the outside edge of the kelp forest was 20 maybe 25 ft, water temp was 51, maximum depth was 45 ft.  The kelp forest there, though significant, is maybe 25% of normal.  Below are some photos from this dive, for more, please go to:  https://photos.app.goo.gl/MmXGVSYRkeeXh9yA8

Looking back past Guy at Otter Cove's stairs as we snorkel out to the kelp forest.

  Visibility gradually improved as we made our way through the giant kelp bed to its outer edge where the rocky bottom transitions to sand and where the largest rock structures are found.

                                           Tube Anemones with Sea Lemon Nudibranch

                                  Painted Greenling with Strawberry Anemones and Purple Sea Urchins

                       As we made our way back towards shore through the kelp forest a harbor seal played peak a boo with us.