Another double dip dive day ! saturday sonoma coast !

No trophies nothing to big to reort but here it is.

AM morning dive #1
Met up with brandon and Alex snail diver Saturday morning for a dive. We all met up at 630 at the beach in question. We had nice clear Sky's with no wind, so we  walked over to the bluffs edge and could see how far the water was out and man was it far the furthest I have seen in a long time water was a little bumpy and surgy from the low Tide as well as very dirty. So we all got suited up and begun our hike to the cove. After we got there which was a new spot that we were checking out. Once in the water we were treated with about 1ft vis maybe a hazy 1 1/2ft vis so we dove for about 2hrs looking for giants, We were working the shallows in about 10 to 15ft. Brandon and I were finding a few abalone here and there all about 9 inches, Alex was having a little bit of a hard time seeing in the low dark vis, so I ended up with one real nice fat 9 1/2 that I tagged and sent home with Alex so it was not a waisted trip for him. The best part of the dive was when we were out on the beach and I was tagging my abalone Alex asked us do we allways dive in this dirty of and rough or water so brandon and I laughed and said yes ! that is why the big ones our here . The only bad part about the dive was Alex losing his weight belt which we will find cause not to many people dive hear so it Will not go any where and will find it's home again . So as we were walking back to the truck it looked like the water was laying down so brandon and I made the comment do we want to try again latter which we discussed over breakfast ? Well that is our first dive.

PM afternoon dive #2

Well after a lunch break and a trip back to my place to hang out and warm up and let the water lay down. We headed back at noon for another try at the same place. This time we could tell we had much calmer water and better vis about 4ft with a hazy 5 could actually see my fins this time. Once again we dove for about 2hrs looking for the giants no luck but did find another giant octo  in the rocks which was cool. It just blows me away at all the 9+ Ab's that we found and no ten but hey I know they are there just not home for us this time. well I will let Brandon and Alex chime in on the rest.

Bro, post a hookup man! Got some skillz!

Thanks for sharing Matt!!

Sounds like a great day with good friends!!

Sincerely,

Jim