Dec 17th Dive off of Carmel

Mark — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:44:55 +0000

The weather was perfect today, nice and sunny as we made our way out of the bay. Jim indicated we could do Lunaticos Annex which to be honest I can’t recall doing. The ball was dropped in a canyon between two structures. The canyon ran North to South, the South end being the deeper area. The depth at the bottom of the canyon was about 170. Following the canyon South we descended to about 190 where we found a nice vase sponge with hundreds of Elephant Ear sponges all over the walls around us. We scootered East around a small pinnacle then headed West past a number of other pinnacles. There were at least 5 or 6 other large vase sponges in this area with hydrocoral and more elephant ear sponges. With the great vis we scootered to the end of the reef, turned around and followed our way back to the original canyon. Once back to there we headed North, dropped down on the other side and scootered East where we poked our heads into a small cave. I couldn’t see the end of it so we turned around, headed West, again encountering lots of sponges, schools of young rockfish, and a few Ling Cod. We ascended to the 150′ level, spent a bit of time checking out the structure, passing a few of other dive teams then shot the bag. The current was virtually non existent and the shot line was visible for much of the deco as were some of the others on deco. Tons of cool looking jellies in the water to keep our interest and after we surfaced we dove into the chicken and brownies. We opted not to do the second dive but the teams indicated the vis was slightly worse but still pretty good. On the way back in a humpback entertained us with about 5 or 6 huge breaches.. fantastic! What a great day.

Getting Ready For the 5k

Mark — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:17:43 +0000

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Craziness On Atlanta

Mark — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:01:56 +0000

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Lounge Set Ready for Lounging

Mark — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:50:31 +0000

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Lemons are finally ready to squeeze

Mark — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:49:07 +0000

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Alaska 2011 Video

Mark — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:24:50 +0000

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Alaska 2011 Photos

Mark — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:45:43 +0000

Click here for all the photos

The Big Stare Down

Mark — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:15:49 +0000

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Cooper’s Hawk

Mark — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:27:41 +0000

This juvenile Coopers Hawk flew into my tree today. Nice looking bird.

BAUE Wharf Dive – July

Mark — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:48:14 +0000

BAUE decided to do a Wharf dive for the next member invitational. Here are some of my pictures from the one dive that I did with Mike J. and Boris.

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