Casino Point, Catalina

September 4th, Erik, Matt, Forest, Will, Brent and I took the Flyer over to Avalon and spent the day diving at Casino Point. The water was great, and the weather was perfect. There was a new sailboat hull in about 30 feet, almost straight out from the stairs. It has no mast or rigging, and several outboards stuffed in the cabin for ballast.

Sunlight down through the kelp

Backlit Sea fan

Engine block in a wreck

Plaque in the underwater park

Pacific Comet Star

Bat ray poking around a wreck

Bat ray cruising through the kelp

Bat Ray digging in the sand, with Matt, sheephead, and a sargo watching

Erik hanging out in the shallows

Matt in a cloud of small fish

Will in the kelp

Brent and Forest in kelp

A diver on the surface in the sun

A diver in the distance behind the swim platform ruins

Erik steering the sunken sailboat

Side of a sunken sailboat hull

California Scorpionfish

Two California Scorpionfish

wary Calico Bass

Rock Wrasse

Tiny Girabaldi, almost half blue

Juvenile Girabaldi

Juvenile Girabaldi, and a curious sheephead

Girabaldi and wrecked swim platform

Sheephead

Sheephead and divers

Sheephead in wrecked swim platform

Male Sheephead

Girabaldi and kelp in the shallows

Kelpfish

Kelpfish trying to be a kelp stipe

Kelpfish

Calico Bass hiding under the kelp

Last updated: Sat Oct 28 18:37:49 PDT 2000