2007_04_21_Santa Cruz Channel Island Camping

Jeff and I went out to Santa Cruz Island for a night of camping, some hiking, and some beer drinking. We took a boat out of Ventura, which dropped us off for the night. We showed up (late, after Jeff's car overheated) with backpacking gear and when we arrived to get on the boat, everyone else had car camping gear, including coolers full of beer! Luckily, our neighbors were friendly and had lots of extra!

Pictures from the first day:
http://picasaweb.google.com/will0967/2007_04_21_SantaCruzChannelIslandCamping

Pictures from the second day:
http://picasaweb.google.com/will0967/2007_04_22_SantaCruzChannelIslandCamping

2007_04_17-CatalinaDiving

Pictures from a boat trip out to Catalina Island. We arrived the night before for a trip out to San Clemente Island to play with a bunch of sea lions. We loaded up our gear, drank a bunch of gear, then woke up at Catalina Island. They had attempted the trip out to the Channel Islands, but shortly after leaving the harbor decided against it, due to high winds and choppy conditions. We got in three dives.

Eagle Reef:
http://picasaweb.google.com/will0967/2007_04_14CatalinaEagleReef

Yellowtail Point
http://picasaweb.google.com/will0967/2007_04_14CatalinaYellowtailPoint

And Blue Caverns, posted below.

2007_04_14-CatalinaBlueCaverns

2007_03_27-Shaw's Cove Dive

Dive at Shaw's Cove, with Peter. Played with the wide angle lens on this dive. Vis was pretty bad, but still a good dive!

Link to pictures:
http://picasaweb.google.com/will0967/2007_03_27_Shaws_WideAngleLens

My current computer setup has 2 monitors, with a regular VGA connection on one and a DVI connection on the other. On the VGA monitor, the pictures all look like crap. On the DVI monitor, they look much better. If they look like crap on your monitor, it may be possibly to adjust the brightness/contrast to get a better picture.

2007_03_25 Dead Man's and Shaw's Cove

First dive was with Peter and Erik, at Dead Mans:

Pissed off looking sheep crab. Like a moray eel, these things always look like they want to rip your thumb off!


Don't know what this is, but it looks cool.



Next dive was with Erik, at Shaw's Cove. Awful visibility, but still a good time.

Erik


Starfish

Closeup of starfish "finger"


I forget what these are called, but they're really ugly, especially up close.


I saw this feather floating around in the surge and it reminded me of American Beauty...only without the video or garbage bag...


We also saw a hermit crab getting tumbled through the surf. It was rather funny (for us at least, I don't think he found it humorous) to watch him try to hold on for dear life, only to go tumbling along the bottom, then get a chance to grab on again, with the process repeating. I have a short video I'll try to get uploaded.

2007_03_24-Marine Land Dive

Heading out for a dive at a new location - Marine Land, north of Huntington Beach, rather than our typical drive south to Laguna Beach. Unfortunately, my camera lens was fogged for the majority of the dive, so my typical bad picture taking was made even worse by this fact! Pictures below:

Spanish Shawl


Spongy & Spiky


Lot's of arms!


Sea Hare

2007_03_21-Fisherman's Cove Dive

Peter's well written dive report:
Click for Link

My short, straight to the point, dive report:


Thanks Peter!