<\/p>\nI’ve had this persistent cough for the last two months – no fever, no blocked sinuses, so I’m not sure what it is; I have pretty much learned to live with it until it goes away.<\/p>\n
Driving in from an undisclosed, secret Santa Monica location, I arrived at 7:00 AM – an hour early – and checked out the conditions.<\/p>\n
Low tide and water that was flat as a lake, called me to finally get in the water again.<\/p>\n
The regular divers started to arrive; even though the arrival of Chipper usually jinxes perfect conditions, that was not the case this morning.<\/p>\n
Entering the water from The Cove, I slipped on a rock, did the splits and ruined my perfect entrance – at least I gave some entertainment to some tourists that were watching – it’s probably on the Japanese Youtube channel.<\/p>\n
Logged SCUBA Dive #377<\/p>\n
Off The Cove and to the right
\nTerranea Resort, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA<\/p>\n
Dove with Not New Chris and Dennis G.<\/p>\n
In With: 2600 psi
\nOut With: 500 psi
\nMax depth: 30 feet
\nWaves: Miniscule, maybe two feet at best
\nVisibility: 8-20 feet
\nWater Temperature: 57 degrees
\nTotal Bottom Time: About 45 minutes<\/p>\n
Dennis G., Not So New Chris and I went to the right and submerged.<\/p>\n
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Some places off of Terranea Resort resemble the barren seascape of Veteran’s Park.<\/p>\n
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A Sheep Crab awaits to attack passing divers.<\/p>\n
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Don’t get too close Dennis!<\/p>\n
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The crab attacks!<\/p>\n
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Combined with the shallow depth and lots of light, some parts of this dive opened up to 20 feet of visibility. <\/p>\n
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If you haven’t learned by now, don’t come here for sea life identification lessons; I don’t know what these things are, but they look cool.<\/p>\n
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An Opal eye gives me a stare.<\/p>\n
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A very rare purple starfish.<\/p>\n
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A starfish next to a sun star.<\/p>\n
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I’m not sure what this starfish is doing – it folded itself in half, over what looks like a sea feather.<\/p>\n
Everyone made an easy exit at The Cove.<\/p>\n
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Donna The Hot Biker Chick, who is recovering from a cold, joined us for traditional debriefing.<\/p>\n
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Just a warning about newer vehicles – apparently they tend to lock themselves automatically after a while, so don’t leave your keys inside.<\/p>\n
Around 11 AM, the sun was out and the public lot started to fill up.<\/p>\n
To our amazement, we saw a family of six walking down from the distant free parking on the long driveway, all carrying beach chairs and boogie boards.<\/p>\n
Boogie boards here?<\/p>\n
I guess they saw a picture of the sandy beach and thought it went all the way down to the water?<\/p>\n
In less time than it took to finish the King Of Beers, the family was walking back to their car.<\/p>\n
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Someone asked Military Bob which branch of the armed forces was he in – the first person to post with the correct guess, wins two 12-ounce Budweisers<\/strong> the next Sunday that I show up – you must be over 18 to claim prize.<\/p>\n Traffic was pretty light getting back to Santa Monica.<\/p>\n I will have to say, there is quite a difference between the Long Beach “Gang” Ghetto and the Santa Monica “Hippie” Ghetto.<\/p>\n In Long Beach, if you’re out in public and some bum asks you for money and you tell him to go screw himself, everything is cool – people around you may even laugh.<\/p>\n If you do the same thing in Santa Monica, a lot of times, some ultra-liberal piece of crap will step up and try and lecture you about the unfortunate plight of the homeless – so you basically have to tell two people off.<\/p>\n I know there’s a lot of homeless people that need help, but when I saw a “homeless” woman with her eight year old daughter, with all their possessions in a shopping cart, wheel everything directly into a nearby motel room at dusk, I wonder how many are just actors.<\/p>\n They had been on the side of the street collecting food and money all day.<\/p>\n Rain has been forecast for later in the week, and the lobster season clock is ticking – hopefully, I will have time to do more diving soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve had this persistent cough for the last two months – no fever, no blocked sinuses, so I’m not sure what it is; I have pretty much learned to live with it until it goes away. Driving in from an undisclosed, secret Santa Monica location, I arrived at 7:00 AM – an hour early – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943"}],"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=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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