We arrived to amazing, flat calm conditions and a high tide. Entry was still a bit tricky as the rock seems extra slick with the gross brown algae layer. I had never really gone for a long swim on the right side of the cove, so we headed out that way to see what we could see. We swam for awhile and there wasn't a ton going on. Once we got out to 50-60 feet, I saw a bunch of closed up scarlet psolus, most rocks seemed to have a shanny camped under them, and a solitary closed up northern red. The highlight of the dive was a rock gunnel on some seaweed out in the middle of the sand who was left with very little choice but to tolerate a few shots. Nice dive! For dive #2, we decided to head out the left side to see if we could find some depth over there. We stopped by anemone overhang, which had no anemones, and paid a visit to the northern red on the wall. I offered a club tunicate and an urchin, but the anemone was not interested in either and let them drop. We moved on and headed out to the point where we found more shannies and a beautiful northern red out on a rock. As we headed back in, I found a huge spider crab carapace and tried to pull it out of the sand to get a better look. It wouldn't budge, but eventually a HUGE spider crab emerged from the sand, threw up his claws, and ran off into the middle of the cove. The thing was dinner plate sized and really surprised me when it popped out of the sand. We also spotted a ton of moon snails, a tiny juvenile fourspot flounder, and a big cloud of squid ink but no squid. Another nice one!
