Monterey boat dive

Went out on the Cypress Sea for a 3 tank trip a couple of weekends ago, as a "warmup" to the California Beach Dive Photo Competition. Going from 88F water in Thailand to the 46F we found that morning at Carmel Bay was quite a shock to my system. Talk about a hard reset. I only managed to do 2 out of the 3 dives and had only about an hour of total bottom time before I had to quit.

Here's the best of the few shots I did manage to take

http://fototime.com/inv/A89AE575D723539

Here's my favorite for the outing.

Hi Herb, absoluty great picture, what lovely colors.

This is worth the cold water torture. I would love to live somewhere where i can go diving on the weekends in something else than muddy lakes .....

Bye Simon

Great one Herb. I am always looking for them in the kelp. The colour on the rings is pretty amazing. Is August here yet?