Time to give up our Beach front accommodation's and head for home and the cold water and kelp of California! It was to turn out to be the first of many fun and exciting trip to the south!
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Time to give up our Beach front accommodation's and head for home and the cold water and kelp of California! It was to turn out to be the first of many fun and exciting trip to the south!
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This is very cool, Reed. Growing up in Laguna Beach, and having the same good fortune to camp in San Felipe a few dozen times gives me a similar perspective of how good we really had it.
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I am still digitizing my old stuff so have patience I will cover most of the coast by the time I have exhausted my supply! LOL
This one was one of the many boat dives to the local islands! This was San Clemente island 60 miles of the Southern California coast and has a Navel Base and Seal training center on it! It also has some cool wrecks that were sunk by Demolition teams and target practice!
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Okay TB here is one for you Divers Cove Laguna Beach California 1975!
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How about a dive at the old Marine Land of the Pacific where you have to walk up a Cardiac Hill to get back to the parking lot! And Torpedo Rays are known to cruse the water that can be less than perfect visibility! This is the palace where Otto Gasser ran head on into a Torpedo Ray knocking him out cold with a "Blue flash" as he described it! You knew you were in good shape when you could do this dive and get back to the parking lot!
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TB, I will be digitizing more Baja stuff some so here is one you might remember? Now there is block wall and deep water harbor dredged out and you can't drive onto the beach anymore! There are resorts all along the south side of the bay! The point in the distance is Punta Esttrallia where the light house is located! I have some of the old Ice House and Shrimp fleet as well! I also went to Porto Panasico (Choya Bay) a number of times and did 16 mile reef!
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Okay, by request I will spend a little more time in Baja! As long as the Boone's Farm Strawberry wine holds out! LOLSorry for the bad quality of some of these I would have lost them completely if it were not for computers! Now they will forever be enshrined in Cyberspace for all time!
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We collected shells and soft corals that were unseen in the cold water of our coast!
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We were really into bug hunting for a number of years on one trip to Santa Cruz Island we did an area were there is a big cave that connects with a smaller one at the rear of the two Caverns.... They are more Cavern by definition than caves! Otto hated "Sea Caves" according to him "How do you thing they became caves?" But they were a great place to find bugs, many times clinging to the ceilings! I went in the smaller one on the right side and just after the two connected I ran into a pocket of a dozen or more nice sized lobsters! The Surge had picked up quite a bit and some big rollers were now hitting the cavern face! I was trying to hold my light, my game bag open, and snatch as many of the bugs as I could! No BC's in those days remember! SO here I am in shallow water in a cavern a number of hands short! So I grabbed one more big bug and was sinking toward the bottom in the dark as a huge wave hit the opening over pressurizing the cavern and pushing me further down by 20 to 25ft or more with no way to clear my ears the pain was horrible, but I got the bugs!
I swam out of the cavern and towards the boat where my buddy had headed a little earlier! I came back with a limit for both of us and climbed aboard the Coral Sea to divide up the bounty, get warm, fill our tanks, and relax! I could feel my head pounding from the squeeze in the Cavern and my ears were hurting, but you had to man up, even though I had my limit! The longer I sat out the more I was talking myself out of the last dive of the day! People had done well at this location so it would be another one here! One of the woman divers came over and said "She hadn't gotten any bugs with her buddy" and batted her eyes at me and with a melting smile said "Please"
She weighed all of 110lbs soaking wet and I had been her TA a few semesters back! Otto used to say "Students will do whatever you do, so don't drowned!" Ear and all I suited up and we splashed in with the plan to go over on the surface and she would hold the light and help with the game bag as I caught the bugs and we would bag her a limit! Well I hadn't said a thing about my ear and thought I could grin and bear it for one more dive!
We were kicking together and gave each other the okay sign to start to drop down! As soon as the water entered my hood, and the cold water hit what was a blistered ear drum, my world changed instantly! I got instant Vertigo and I couldn't tell up from down as my eyes rolled back in my head and the nausea was like a punch to the gut! I was so proud of my former student who recognized something was very wrong and came to me dragged me to the surface, a couple feet, rolled me on my back grabbed my tank valve and started kicking us both back! She yelled for help and was close to the boat in no time where everyone was now on the swim platform helping to lift me out of the water and onto the deck! Where I barfed my brains out as I was helped out of my gear!
The moral of the story is communicated if you think you've hurt yourself or done something stupid! Others will understand and there are more important things than a bag of Bugs! Not sure what, but there are! And the most important is Her training was so good she went into rescue mode without hesitation or concern and did exactly as she had been trained! I split my bugs with her BTW
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One of the things that Otto had us do was use our tables and do some altitude Diving! So he always liked Lake Tahoe and Emerald Cove as good place to experience the Cold Crystal clear waters of Lake Tahoe at 8000ft above sea level! Of course we were all told about the Lady of the Lake and to keep an eye out for her in her white wedding gown!
The story went like this: A bride on her way to her wedding in the late 1800's was late and in a hurry in her Buckboard and was running her horses full speed around the corner to Emerald Cove and her Groom waiting at the church! The Buckboard slipped around the corner and went over the edge and into the water 400ft below! The Bride being in her wedding dress could not swim and sunk into the clear abyss with her gown flowing behind her!
The rest of the story is that fisherman and divers have reported seeing her body in the water to this day! The theory is the cold oxygenless water has preserved her and her gown just as she was in 1889!
The visibility can reach 200ft plus and the temp temperature is in the mid 40's in summer!
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Here is a picture of Catalina Island in the distance and then Anacapa to the right with Santa Cruz island on the left! On a clear day you can see three islands that offer beautiful diving for all the lucky California divers that put up with the 54* water!
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