Not too surprised, actually.

Drones show California's great white sharks are closer — and more common — than you think
by: Joe Mozingo
Tue, May 4, 2021, 5:00 AM


https://news.yahoo.com/drones-show-californias-great-white-120031464.html

Excerpt:
"Great whites were thought to be somewhat rare in these southern waters, wandering now and then from the wilder coast up north. Most surfers considered it supremely improbable that one of these apex predators was hunting for food at their break.

The advent of drone photography has devoured that notion.

Gauna spots a great white within a minute-and-a-half of launch. The animal weaves languidly in the surf line, about 100 yards from the father and son. “Wow, he’s in the waves,” he says. “That is so pretty.”

Soon he has locked his screen on four juvenile more sharks, all near shore."

I needed to catch my breath

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedBullSports/comments/mh4ym1/kayaking_at_100kmh_on_snow_red_bull_kayaking/?utm=

On a recent low tide excursion, one of many great clusters of Abalone observed. How many do you count?

Well, I have seen and experienced some tough ones - but then I saw these guys:

Sea Kayaking: A Different Kind of Race

don't go out alone, he does.
don't turn your back on the ocean - he does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=314&v=mMiBz3_XmbI&feature=emb_logo

Sketchy. Can’t tell if it is playing with him or being territorial and telling him to get off his lawn. It’s certainly deliberate.

https://m.imgur.com/r/gifs/Uzbl0Wb

https://gfycat.com/frankviciousjackal

That diver must feed the eel regularly

https://www.sciencealert.com/thousands-of-mysterious-holes-have-been-found-in-the-ocean-floor-off-the-californian-coast

MICHELLE STARR
11 DEC 2019

There's a mystery lurking in the Pacific Ocean just off the coast of Big Sur, California. An underwater survey has found thousands of small, round divots scooped out of the soft sediment on the seafloor.

While it's not clear how the holes formed, they seem to have quickly become popular among seafloor critters as desirable shelters.

Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) found roughly 15,000 of these holes, averaging 11 metres (36 feet) in diameter and one metre (3 feet) in depth.