We met at the parking lot at Cove 2 around 4 PM for the first dive.  Randy P. and Ed G. have spent the year doing regular dives focused on finding sixgill sharks.  To no avail... This one was no different for finding sharks, but was good diving anyway.

 

Along the boundary line we found a GPO under one of the steel plates.  It was a good sized animal.  A vermillion rockfish cruised near the same plates.  Some of the rockfish were out at the rock piles.  We also saw squat lobster or galatheid crabs at the second rock pile.  We hung at the I-beams for 10 or 15 minutes (we both had nitrox 100 cuft tanks).  Going up slope we spotted a horned shrimp and a couple of decorated warbonnets in the logs.  There was a very big ling under the Honeybear wreck.

 

When we got out our friend PJ was there and two more friends showed up too, Guy and Roberta.  The five of us did the second dive together.

 

We did a similar route minus the hang at the I-beams.  Saw the big octo again and horned shrimp.  Found another couple of decorated warbonnets in logs, but Roberta found a big one guarding eggs in one of the logs near the Honeybear.  I also discovered another big octo under the back end of the wreck.  I had not seen it there the first dive, though it could have just turned enough to see the suckers better.  We saw a number of sailfin sculpins and one grunt.

 

Water temp was running 44 to 46 degrees depending on who's computer you were looking at.  Visibility was no less that 15 feet and was more like 20 most of the time.  It didn't help that we had two seals following us on the first dive.