We were successful at avoiding the hordes at the Bridge over the weekend. Today it was absolutely fabulous. We had few divers, eighty-four degree water, and twenty to thirty feet of vis. We could see well into the boat channel from the safe side of the pilings. My student was thrilled that we saw at least two dozen octopuses, a goldspotted eel, a neck (decorator) crab, a couple of yellow garden eels, several yellow stingrays, and a juvenile french or gray angelfish (it was too small for my eyes to distinguish). We played with the Pederson cleaner shrimp and tried to play tug-of-war with an octopus, but the octopus only saw us as a nuisance so we left it alone. Today's water temperature is the warmest we have had so far this year. I was in a 3mm wetsuit, but on Thursday I'm going to wear my diveskin. The report from offshore today was that the vis was better than eighty feet and the water temperature was eighty-two to the bottom. Play hooky and Get in the water, Ham
