11.28.10
Time: 11:06am
Buddy: Jenni Wilson-Cooper
Depth: 41ft
Bottom Time: 41 minutes
Vis: 15ft
Temp: 61°
Notes:
Casino Point is a world class dive site. It's sort of a 'Best of California Diving' location. It hosts big rocks, a ship wreck, sunken tires, a sunken swim platform, sunken piers, loads of kelp of many sizes, tons of fish, from time to time you'll even see a giant sea bass. You enjoy a dive at 30 feet just as easily as 100ft in Casino Point. It's also for divers only and is a protected habitat so the fish are super friendly, it's almost as if they know you can't do anything to them.
I love Casino Point.
This was the worst conditions I've ever seen there. Visibility was 12 to 15 feet, where it usually ranges 20 to 25 feet, often better. The surface was choppy. It was cold outside. When we got there, we slightly considered not even diving. Luckily we went in.
Despite the less than perfect conditions it was a very fun dive. We stayed above 50 feet the whole time and barely went through half a tank in 41 minutes. There were many of the classic Catalina fish (Garibaldi, Sheephead, various bass) and a couple really fun little guys including one of my favorites a C-O turbot. Jenni found a six legged star fish, quite odd.
Nothing spectacular, but a really fun little dive.
It was so cold coming out of the water we decided to stop the day at one dive. We spent the rest of the day driving around Avalon in a golf cart and shivering over some whiskey.
Life on an island is good!
