Diving in the park

I did a 45 minute dive at the La Jolla Cove kelp beds this morning with a buddy. Visibility was only 5-10 feet. But the surface temp was 74, and the coldest water we hit was 64 degrees. We saw a lot of kelp bass and a few large schools out, but no large fish like sheephead or giant black sea bass. We did see a horn shark… but it doesn’t count, since it was dead and becoming food. Near the end of the dive we found a huge California spiny lobster, much larger than I’d ever seen here. It was hard to tell exactly how large it was, since it was holed up. But I would guess that head to tail it was over two feet long. The smallest tips of its legs were the size of my thumb. They can live up to 150 years old, so this guy was probably older than me.