Just finished walking around my property here is Lucerne Valley, looking for the monsters. The monsters are coyotes, they are the ones that killed Elvira. I am teaching JR to stay away from them and looking to thin the heard.
Back to diving. We left last Friday night at 7:30 pm for Cat. It was flat calm. Anchored the boat in 80’ of water for the first dive. First diver up, bag o’ bugs. Second diver up bag o’ bugs. Now here is the real test. Moose boy Mike comes up. He is yelling that he caught a legal bug. Well we all just sort of meandered back there. We had heard this before. Well by god, he did have a legal one. Just barely legal, but a keeper. (I think I saw a magazine with that name on it) We make 3 nice dives and more than half the boat got their limits. Not too shabby… Others had a great time diving. The water was warm and clear.
Back out Sat. morning. The seas are starting to get bad. We made it over without incident, but the ocean was beginning to turn. I told all the instructors to do what they had to do the first dive as I was not sure how long we could stay. The weather held and we got the day in. Vis was ok, but down from the night before. I called Reef Seekers and told them SBI was out. We would have to try for Cat.
The next morning we headed out for Cat. Normally I can call them better than this. But that night it was not that bad, and I thought we might have a chance to make it Cat. We ventured out past the “Sea Launch” and I grabbed the binoculars, looked at the ocean at the gap and laughed. I have a person in training to be a captain and told him it was time for his first command decision. He looked at the gap and said “holly sh*t”. I then asked him what that meant and he said if we were to go out there we were crazy. I said you are absolutely correct and turned the boat. Anyone remember the old adds for the men’s store, “what a difference a day makes”? I think of this saying all the time on the ocean. It is absolutely correct.

Until next time………………