More Teaching At Christmas Tree Cove

Skin Dive#:018
Sun Jun 29, 08
Christmas Tree Cove: cobblestones, rocks
Purpose: teach friend
Tide: High @ 6:00 pm
Entry: rocks @ 5:15 pm
Distance: in front of cobblestones
Gear: spring suit, mask, snorkel, fins, socks, gloves
Temp: Air 70 F?/Water 65 F?
Enviroment: partly cloudy, light wind, 1-2 ft breaks, light surge
Visibilty: 5+ ft
Conditions Synopsis: poor
Sights: bait fish, opaleye, surfperch
Exit: same @ 5:45 pm

Time to date: 12 hrs 45 min
Total time this dive: 30 min
Total time: 13 hrs 15 min

Special Notes: Prior to this dip I was stung by a bee while trying to get a look at a stray chicken in the Malaga Cove parking lot. Sound unusual? It was. My arm had a mild reaction to the sting a small area swelled and became discolored and burned. It went away by the time I was diving.

My sister's boyfriend Jonah wanted to try snorkeling so I had another chance to teach someone. Everything went fine and he had no problems what so ever. The vis was another story. It was the bare minimum as the water was cloudy with all kinds of junk wich, aggravated me since I made a spot check here an hour and a half earlier and was able to see the bottom all the way from the top of the cliff! I guess tides can change all that pretty quickly. So, Jonah and I entered calmly and talked out in the water while bobbing up and down and practicing diving shortly below the surface. He was wearing my full suit which, gave him lots of bouyancy. The fish we did see together were small and in low numbers and the water was dark and cloudy. I bet once he comes back on a 25+ vis day, he'll be quite astonished. That will be a fun day. The onlookers this day were my sister, my girlfried, and my girlfriend's friend from Canada. It was fun, but I wish the vis was anything but 5. It can only get better from there!. After we had our fun in the water the exit was calm as we timed it inbetween the small sets. After I calmed I went back in and saw the ususal schools of opaleye and perch. They like to huddle near the big rock in the shoreline. A lone spearpole-fisher with a hawaiin-barbed point walked by our group. He didn't don or carry a wetsuit. We commented on bad vis.