BP 43
MS 44
MW 47
RZ 51
Phone is acting up. Battery is drained. This may be it for the live blog today.
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Sunday, August 17, 2014
At the turn...
BP 43
MS 44
MW 47
RZ 51
Phone is acting up. Battery is drained. This may be it for the live blog today.
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Mike finds a little tree trouble...
... on the first hole.Those bushes are pretty intimidating.
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Live Blogging LINCOLN
With Bob, Rick and Other Mike after a brief warm up on the Presidio range.
A little foggy, but warm and no wind.
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Sunday, August 3, 2014
Abalone 2nd Season Kickoff - Dive Day 2 2014 Abs # 11, 12, 13
On Sunday we made it to the cove in time for morning low. Not as much sun as yesterday, but warm weather, good viz, and mostly smooth water on the protected north side of the cove. Easy, relaxing dives. Limit out.
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| Just a big lake really. |
ABCAM II - The GoPro Movie
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| Harbor seals eagerly await our arrival. |
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| The abs were less enthusiastic about our return. |
Until next time... whenever that might be.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch:
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| My abalone ceviche' ws ready to eat. |
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| Leah fried up some bacon for the BLAATs |
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| BLAAT (Bacon, Lettuce, Abalone, Avocado, Tomato) assembly line. |
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| On sourdough bread, simply the finest sandwich known to man. |
Saturday, August 2, 2014
Abalone Season Reopens - Dive Day 1 2014 Abs Number 9 & 10
With the late start, we missed the morning low...
August 2014
| Day | High | Low |
High | Low |
High | Moon | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 1 | 2:32 AM PDT / 4.45 ft | 8:52 AM PDT / 1.21 ft | 3:30 PM PDT / 5.28 ft | 9:55 PM PDT / 1.89 ft | 6:15 AM PDT | 8:26 PM PDT | ||
| Sat 2 | 3:28 AM PDT / 4.06 ft | 9:32 AM PDT / 1.64 ft | 4:10 PM PDT / 5.39 ft | 10:56 PM PDT / 1.64 ft | 6:16 AM PDT | 8:25 PM PDT | ||
| Sun 3 | 4:40 AM PDT / 3.74 ft | 10:19 AM PDT / 2.07 ft | 4:56 PM PDT / 5.53 ft | First Quarter | 6:17 AM PDT | 8:23 PM PDT |
... but instead were rewarded with brilliant sunshine to augment the great viz and benign swells in the protected cove. It was a low high and a high low anyway - tides often associated with good visibility. We were not disappointed.
Some pics from a great kickoff to the second half of the 2014 abalone season.
Gearing up...
... and climbing down.
Conditions were great.
Checking out the GoPro (Will update post with vids eventually. Really):
Sights from a great day of diving:
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| Ab in the wild |
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| Harbor seal checks us out. Again. |
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| An unusual sight... |
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| A Mola Mola in the cove! |
Unusual sea creatures sail back to Monterey Bay
"SANTA CRUZ -- Helpless in the wind and sounding like a nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, velella velellas have returned to the Monterey Bay in droves... Warmer water is bringing other unusual sights, including more sightings of long-beaked common dolphins, Cummings said. Black said she's also seeing more Risso's dolphins, joining the bay's resident Pacific white-sided dolphin, which prefers cooler temperatures. Black also has seen another odd sight: sunfish, or mola molas, have been gobbling up velella velellas (which is a mouthful, so to speak). "I've never seen a sunfish eating a by-the-wind-sailor in all my 28 years," Black said..."
"Sunfish are most often found in water warmer than 10 °C (50 °F); prolonged periods spent in water at temperatures of 12 °C (54 °F) or lower can lead to disorientation and eventual death. Researchers theorize that surface basking behaviour, in which a sunfish swims on its side, presenting its largest profile to the sun, may be a method of "thermally recharging" following dives into deeper, colder water.Others point to sightings of the fish in colder waters outside of its usual habitat, such as those southwest of England, as evidence of increasing marine temperatures... Sea lions appear to hunt sunfish for sport, tearing the fins off, tossing the body around, and then simply abandoning the still-living but helpless fish to die on the seafloor..."
We took two each for our first day.
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| Apres' Dive |
Plenty for a traditionally prepared pan fry dinner.
Got to Sea Ranch, got license, got good conditions, got sticky roll...
Picked Harlan and Leah up at SFO 10:30 PM Friday, drove three hours
through heavy coastal fog to arrive at Sea Ranch early Saturday
morning. After the late (early?) arrival we were a little slow
getting started on Saturday.
We got our gear together...
...stopped at the Farmers Market in Gualala for provisions...
...picked up a fishing license and abalone report card for Harlan...
... and drove to the cove. Earlier in the week we worried about the swell forecast (as always). Pacific Waverider seemed benign but SwellWatch 3D projected a 12 foot Northern Swell far offshore.
No worries. The cove is protected from the northern swell on this part of the coast.
Conditions look good. Going in...
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Friday, August 1, 2014
Not live blogging The Olympic Club Lake Course...
... with Brad, Bob, & Zach. Zach arranged to sneak a few of his Bad Golf Association buddies out on the course. I'm not live blogging because on a course of this import, cell phones are not allowed on the course. Obviously, if you don't have your cell phone, you can't take pictures like this one on the practice putting green:
Or a picture of Bob by the famous first tee Olympic Clock:
Or on the first tee & green:
Or any of these other action shots:
For reasons I don't understand, my phone ran out of juice before we got to the 19th hole. Hard to explain since I was not using it.
In any case, a great day on a great course, although I did not shower myself with glory. Two pars - both on par three holes, but three "9's" and one asterik. And I only lost one ball all day.
ZN - 89
BP - 94
BK - 94
MW - 111
It's a hard course.
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