Tell me your secret spots...

for giant urchin.  I'm looking for the biggest urchins out there.  I want the shells for a project.  So if you've seen urchin on your dives that made you go "huh, those are some obscenely large urchin", then please share with me that spot. 

Thanks,
Nate

Shelter cove 

^^ yup

300yards south of point arena had some really good size ones.when I first saw them from the distance I thought they were abs

Pt. Area urchin Nov 2013

Jon/Fivers's house

Jon/Fivers's house

But these're dead ones! 

Still moving

Saw a crap load out of Caspar today.  Someone was harvesting off kayak like crazy.  Big bags of large ones. I never harvested more than 2.  I will check video and post if I accidentally captured images. 

The south side of Caspar Cove is protected from commercial urchin fishing, so there's some big ones out there.

Thanks for sharing.  I now have a list to start with so I hope to get in the water soon.

Nate

Pedotti's reef Sonoma county! If you bring your zodiac, i want to go!

The south side of Caspar Cove is protected from commercial urchin fishing, so there's some big ones out there.

True, a barren cove with nothing BUT urchins.

Shelter Cove, Cape Mendocino, and Trinidad.  You can easily pick big ones off the rocks in a decent low tide without diving.

This is what I want to do with the urchin.  It's for my daughter's room.  The idea is to have the hanging urchin tillandsia (air plants) to mimic a field of jellyfish.  The shells are so delicate that I figure I'll need a lot to experiment with to get them durable enough. 

I'm also considering attaching some ab shells to the walls to give it that 3D effect.  If you guys have other suggestions, I'd love to hear them. 

Thanks,
Nate

P.S  The artwork was done by Amadeo.