Carrie and I had a day off so we did an early-morning bridge dive. We were in the water by 7:00 for our two hour, thirteen minute dive. The water temperature was between seventy-nine and eighty-one depending on where we were. In three millimeter wetsuits we were very comfortable. Vis was at best twenty feet, but fell off after the slack high tide. Octopuses were still everywhere; we saw over two dozen, most of them in the sand south of the bridge. A squadron of four squid hovered between the third set of pilings and the solid bridge support by the boat channel. Carrie got the photo of one of them. Two jawfish were very camera-tolerant by the north end of the "canyon". A batfish was about twenty yards north of the "upside-down wreck" hiding in the same piece of junk for over a week now. We saw a lionfish in the shopping carts just off the beach, but could not catch it in Carrie's shell jar. It's so nice to be there on a weekday; we saw only three other divers and a few snorkelers. Conditions are gorgeous! Get in the water, Ham
