{"id":612,"date":"2006-10-19T08:17:20","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T15:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2008-02-01T18:52:35","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T01:52:35","slug":"logged-dive-210-honeymoon-cove-palos-verdes-estates-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"Logged Dive #210 &#8211; Honeymoon Cove, Palos Verdes Estates, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honeymoon Cove, Palos Verdes Estates, CA<\/p>\n<p>Solo Diving\/night diving\/lobster diving with shore support.<\/p>\n<p>In With: 3000 psi<br \/>\nOut With: 500 psi<br \/>\nMax depth: 25 feet<br \/>\nWaves:  1-2 feet, insignificant<br \/>\nVisibility: 10 feet plus<br \/>\nWater Temperature: Cool and comfortable<br \/>\nTotal Bottom Time: About 50 minutes<br \/>\nPhotos by: Nick<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard so much about this place &#8211; &#8220;It&#8217;s better than Malaga Cove because it&#8217;s so hard to get to from shore and is not &#8216;lobstered&#8217; out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I arrived at 7:30 PM; Nick soon arrived and so did Ron T.<\/p>\n<p>Ron and Nick were not planning on diving but came to either provide shore support or to see how desperate I was to fill my bag with seven tasty lobsters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pa190119.jpg\" alt=\"I gear up happily thinking about lobsters.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I geared up.<\/p>\n<p>Nick was such a pussy; he was going to stay on top of the cliff and not risk the goat trail down to the shore.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pa190121.jpg\" alt=\"Dive Master Ron followed me down the steep goat trail to the shore line.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dive Master Ron followed me down the steep goat trail to the shore line.<\/p>\n<p>The walk down sucked, but entry into the water was smooth.<\/p>\n<p>I put my fins on and basically crawled out.<\/p>\n<p>I went South and caught and released a short lobster.<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping that it wouldn&#8217;t set the precedent for the night.<\/p>\n<p>Back and forth, back and forth, covering as much ground as I possibly could looking for lobsters.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, three lobsters and all short!<\/p>\n<p>I swam back in, debriefed with Ron and took probably 20 minutes to walk back up the hill.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pa190248.jpg\" alt=\"The walk up sucked!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The walk up sucked!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pa190249.jpg\" alt=\"Just short of the lip of the cliff is a crawl.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just short of the lip of the cliff is a crawl.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pa190252.jpg\" alt=\"Dirty and soiled, I emerge from Honeymoon Cove.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Ron&#8217;s words, &#8220;You didn&#8217;t catch anything, but that sure was a macho dive.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honeymoon Cove, Palos Verdes Estates, CA Solo Diving\/night diving\/lobster diving with shore support. In With: 3000 psi Out With: 500 psi Max depth: 25 feet Waves: 1-2 feet, insignificant Visibility: 10 feet plus Water Temperature: Cool and comfortable Total Bottom Time: About 50 minutes Photos by: Nick I&#8217;ve heard so much about this place &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,7,9,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}