{"id":1913,"date":"2010-12-18T23:58:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T06:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2010-12-20T14:09:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T21:09:30","slug":"the-planned-2010-underwater-christmas-tree-event-and-toy-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1913","title":{"rendered":"The (Planned) 2010 Underwater Christmas Tree Event and Toy Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been raining for days and it&#8217;s suppose to continue for the next six, with another storm hitting us next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Not to disappoint any poor child that might get gypped out of a present due to the rain, the toy drive was not cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the diving part, it looked grim from Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/redondobeachrunoff64831.jpg' alt='Redondo Beach Runoff' \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mind diving a day after a light rain, but assuming conditions were pristine, everyone would literally be diving in shit.<\/p>\n<p>Three days of having everything that&#8217;s on the roads and in the storm drains wash out into the ocean does not make for a healthy dive.<\/p>\n<p>Never the less, apparently two divers braved the poopy water.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/toyrundiveandsurf.jpg' alt='Dive N Surf Toy Drive' \/><\/p>\n<p>So, my diving compatriots huddled under two awnings, collecting toys, drinking coffee, mimosa&#8217;s and hot cider, while talking about a variety of subjects.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/mimosaandcider1.jpg' alt='Breakfast of champions.' \/><\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t seen a few divers for a while, and met a couple new ones.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/toysfortotsscuba.jpg' alt='Toys for tots.' \/><\/p>\n<p>With no kids around, and not wanting to wait for the Firemen (who were never called anyway), it was decided that Dive N Surf would deliver the countless thousands of dollars worth of toys to the Fire Station.<\/p>\n<p>Everything was wrapped up with little fanfare.<\/p>\n<p>For those who want to know what we missed out on, <a href=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1484\">you can read about a previous year&#8217;s Christmas Tree Dive here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, how has lobster season been treating everyone?<\/p>\n<p>Not very many divers seem to be enthusiastic about the current lobster season.<\/p>\n<p>With little exception, divers around here just haven&#8217;t been catching many &#8211; one or two per trip, if that; and there haven&#8217;t been many trips.<\/p>\n<p>Crazy Ivan told me he paid $300 for a two night, three day lobster dive off the upper channel islands only to get completely skunked.<\/p>\n<p>After the storms clear, weather wise and domestically speaking, I&#8217;ll try lobster hunting again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been raining for days and it&#8217;s suppose to continue for the next six, with another storm hitting us next weekend. Not to disappoint any poor child that might get gypped out of a present due to the rain, the toy drive was not cancelled. As far as the diving part, it looked grim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,13,9,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}