{"id":1430,"date":"2008-10-10T23:19:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T06:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2008-10-11T09:40:12","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T16:40:12","slug":"old-marineland-beach-access-commercial-lobster-hunting-redondo-pier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1430","title":{"rendered":"Old Marineland Beach Access, Commercial Lobster Hunting &#038; Redondo Pier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Old Marineland Beach Access<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.divevets.com\/forum\/index.php?topic=2108.msg11870\" target=\"_new\">Max BottonTime&#8217;s post on Divevets,<\/a> the Old Marineland (aka Long Point, Terranea Resort) <em>&#8220;temporary Beach Access Trail &#8230; will be intermittently closed for construction purposes beginning Friday, October 10, 2008 through Wednesday, November 12, 2008.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;During the temporary closure, escourted trail access will be provided to the public between sunrise and sunset.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Escorted&#8221; trail access?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redondo Beach Pier<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to pull myself together and get over the shock and depression of catching a total of four bugs over seven lobster hunting trips &#8211; an over all horrid dive-to-bug ratio.<\/p>\n<p>What better therapy than to take the day off and head down to the International Boardwalk for some seafood and beer?<\/p>\n<p>Instructor Ed and I made that today&#8217;s mission.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pier2008g.jpg\" alt=\"Quality Seafood at Redondo Beach Pier\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Quality Seafood on the International Boardwalk at Redondo Pier is a good choice for an honest, fresh, no frills seafood meal.<\/p>\n<p>They steam everything right in front of you, unlike some other places where they switch a dead for live crab in the back room.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pier2008a.jpg\" alt=\"Local Spiny lobster at Quality Seafood\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Local fresh lobsters are now being sold;  notice the sign above the lobster tank that reads, &#8220;Price increase due to bad weather and high demand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I asked our employee friend Bobby how the commercial lobster fishermen are doing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a horrible season, they&#8217;re barely catching anything,&#8221; bobby said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pier2008b.jpg\" alt=\"Lobster is now almost $30 a pound!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That is why lobster is now almost $30 a pound!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pier2008c.jpg\" alt=\"Green muscles and sea snails make a great appetizer before our dungeness crab is ready.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Green muscles and sea snails make a great appetizer before our dungeness crab is ready.<\/p>\n<p>Some really hot looking young women were eating a few tables down and kept staring at me;  they probably either thought I was someone famous, or maybe they just wanted me?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pier2008e.jpg\" alt=\"Hot chicks sit at Quality Seafood\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It looks like I&#8217;m taking a picture of Ed, but I&#8217;m actually checking the chicks out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pier2008f.jpg\" alt=\"Drinking stout at Najas\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We finished up at Naja&#8217;s, drinking a few Murphy&#8217;s Stouts.<\/p>\n<p>Where to dive this weekend?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll know where when I get there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Marineland Beach Access According to Max BottonTime&#8217;s post on Divevets, the Old Marineland (aka Long Point, Terranea Resort) &#8220;temporary Beach Access Trail &#8230; will be intermittently closed for construction purposes beginning Friday, October 10, 2008 through Wednesday, November 12, 2008.&#8221; &#8220;During the temporary closure, escourted trail access will be provided to the public between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}