Posted by tleemay on September 11, 2000 at 09:29:08:
In Reply to: Anybody dive The Great Escape on the back side of Clemente yesterday? posted by cormerant on September 11, 2000 at 08:15:47:
We don't know, we ended up on the front side.
I was not positive as to the reason why but on
Saturday they chased us off the front due to
military exercises. It was probably the same
reason why for Sunday also - but I'm not positive.
Did Steve's Reef (adjacent to Window Pane),
East End Reef (being referred to lately as
Blue Cavern Wall), and Little Flower (flats
and wall).
Vis was rather good between 50 and 80, the best
vis was at East end Reef. The only temp
reading I looked at was at East End Reef, it was
a rather nice 68 with a decent drop at about -75'
down to 58. Swell was pretty much non-exixtent.
It was a full boat, but it was still comfortable
and easy to dive from thanks to the way Tim has
things laid out.
Yellowtail are still abundant. During our dive
at Little Flower Wall, I watched a cluster of
between 7-9 'tails make a b-line right towards me
from open water only to turn and split every
which way when they got within 10' - tons of fun!
MHK found him a new girl friend in the crevice
of one rocky out cropping, a small octo that wanted
to drag him, by way of his pinky, into her den -
probably so that she could have her way with him
one tenticle at a time - lucky bastard. And what
was going on behind MHK as the octo tried to
seduce him, why even more yellowtail came in to
take a look.