We had the place to ourselves. That is reason number 3a in the "Why to play hooky on a weekday" list. The water temperature was seventy-nine out by the channel and eighty by the beach. We had more than thirty feet of vis; seeing the little wrecks from a long way off was easy. Carrie and I saw seven or eight octopuses of various sizes. There seem to be tiny juvenile french and gray angelfishes in many places. A shortnose batfish was out by the northern side of the channel fenders. In a three millimeter wetsuit and three millimeter hooded vest I was comfortable for our one hour forty-minute dive. Get in the water, Ham
