Redondo 12/7/2008

I had an exciting Sunday yesterday- I got to dive with my

most special dive buddy - MARTY!!! Its been over a month & a half since he has got to dive - so it was pretty cool.... It was Marty, our friends Chris Stacy ( formerly known as " Crabby Chris" but now just "Boy Chris" ) , Jared & I all hitting the water at Redondo. Marty got us off to a good start by being a courteous dive buddy and excusing himself when he bumped into a huge log running across thewater in the entry point. It was fun because he had already put on his fins , so he got to do a backroll entry to get ovet the log :)

We decided to go out deep then do a little exploring in the barrens to see what is cropping up. I seemed to be the only one finding Octos though. The boys all were ahead of me so when I went to show them they were checking there own stuff out :( I ASSUME that if they saw something super cool they would show it to me though... This was one of the little Red Octos >

I was excited to see this brittle star thinking that is was a new species to me - however , after consulting my boook, I believe it is only a different coloration than the usual gray version.. Pretty though..

We worked our way shallower up to the observation tube when I mistakenly thought MArty & Chris wanted to go in because of the direction they were going... I told them I was gonna go with Jared & they could head in .... SORRY GUYS!!! Jared & I headed north to Iraq - I mean a sandstorm... not much to see other than some cool decorator crabs. After taking this ones picture I proceeded to find bigger and more , but hey - how many pictures did I need to take of crabs???

Ok, so this one was taken a few weeks ago , but I really thought he was cute & wanted to do something with his picture... He was so bright and didnt move :)