Ken Bondy
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California Central Coast
Did two nice dives in Morro Bay this week, and a spectacular hike on the Point Buchon Trail in Montana de Oro State Park:
Sea cave:
Sea cave:
New nudibranch (for me) Trapiana velox
A really bad hair day:
carpe diem!
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Mulegena
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Great report, Ken.
Thanks especially for the underwater pix-- a beautiful nudi and a cute gobi.
The other day at Playa Burro there were nudi's all over the sea floor at about 10 feet. On the same dive we also came across one of Baja's gobi's. It
popped back into its tunnel when it saw us, so we stopped and waited a minute, and sure as anything there he came back out! Also, it looked like there
were tiny baby gobi's darting about at the mouth of the hole. Ever seen this?
What ml wetsuit you wearing up there? I've dived Bahia Asuncion with Juan and Mick and we wear 5 to 7 ml year 'round there. On the Sea of Cortez east
side we're diving in bathing suits on shallower dives and 3 ml on hundred footers around San Marcos and Puerto Escondido.
Would love to dive Morro Bay some day. Thanks again.
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Ken Bondy
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Mil gracias Mulegena!! I have seen lots of gobies in the Sea of Cortez but never babies. That would be a great sighting.
I wear a DUI drysuit (TLS 350) in Morro Bay. I don't have much tolerance for cold water and the water in Morro Bay is never above about 55F.
Brrrrr. It was 53F yesterday. My brother-in-law buddy Gary uses a 7mm wetsuit with a vest and he seems comfortable with that but I don't think I
would try it with anything thinner than 7mm.
Yes it would be great to dive Morro Bay with you. Let me know when you are in Californis, maybe we could put it together. Saludos, ++Ken++
carpe diem!
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DianaT
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So good to see more of your underwater shots---always so good. And that character with the bad hair day is ADORABLE.
Thanks---keep diving and keep taking your great shots
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Mexitron
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Nice pics Ken! And great to see my old stomping grounds--I lived in slo for seven years and used to love going to Montana de oro...what a place.
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Eli
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Always good to check back into your vision of what is going on in the world Ken Bondy, you always remind me how beautiful our world is, it is such an
enchanting unreal (but it is real!) place to rest my minds eye.
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Natalie Ann
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What I like best about those fringe-headed gobi creatures are their eyes. Can't remember seeing eyes that big and perfectly camouflaged except in the
movies. Very neat little being, he is.
And your first picture, Ken - you've captured the Zen of that coastline.
Very well done, amigo, very well done indeed.
nena
[Edited on 7-25-2010 by Natalie Ann]
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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Baja12valve
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My wife and I have always liked SLO and the surrounding environment. We have a very good friend in Los Osos, so Montana del Oro is right there. Nice
Mountain Biking on the uphill side of the road, way too sandy on the downhill side.
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