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There is a cove on the northern end of Salt Point State Park that we have nicknamed Seal Cove for a long time, but in hindsight, it would be better called SharkBait because of the topography. In the ten years i have been diving and visiting this cove, i have never not seen seals there.. not one or two, but many which is why i kept going back.. i love playing with and diving around seals.. they are so playful and curious.

however,

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Top Ten Reasons to Not Dive Four Times in May

10. Shucking, cleaning, slicing and pounding twelve abalone

09. Waking up at 5am on four separate occasions and twice in one week

08. Coming up with new ways to convince your dive buddy to wake up at 5am too

07. Putting on a damp wetsuit because it has not had enough time to dry out properly

06. You cant get mussels cause of Red Tides; which also craps out the vis

05. Paying $0.35 for each zip-tie at the Valley Ford Store because you keep forgetting to buy them beforehand

FirstBrode, JohnT, Nakediver and his newbie friend, and myself drove up really early sunday morning to hit up what we call Hookie Cove, but what is also known as The Caulderon to most; just south of Ocean Cove. When we arrived, the conditions were terrible, with huge waves crashing on the shore and larger ones continously coming in. Firstbrode and I said hell no and we decided to go further north to another cove John, Nakediver and I dove on my birthday last year that had a nice rock barrier to the waves.

Naked_Diver, my friend Julie, Firstbrode and I dove today and wow..what a day. I was seriously doubting whether we were going to go or not, but when we all got together, we decided to head up anyway, and if it sucked to do some hiking around the area instead; so we left around 7:30.

First was the fog.... it was seriously thick .. all day... thick to the point that it took nearly 30 minutes longer to get to Ocean Cove because we had to drive so slow... it was nice to see fog because i love diving in it and, in my experience, heavy fog means good diving.