Dive-a-Thon, Day 1 at La Jolla Shores
Today is a landmark day – not only is this the first dive report posted to the new Dive Reports section of wildoceanphoto.com, but it is also the first day of the San Diego Oceans Foundation 2009 Dive-a-Thon. If you haven’t already, please read the post about how Wild Ocean Photo is supporting the Dive-a-Thon. My current goal is to spend 2,000 minutes underwater during July 2009, and today I’m off to a good start with 136 minutes in the ocean at La Jolla Shores.
I spent the first day of the Dive-a-Thon off La Jolla Shores, scouting the shallow waters for subjects to photograph. I was hoping to see leopard sharks, which tend to show up en masse during the summer months, but no sightings yet. What I found instead were several Bay Pipefish (Syngnathus leptorhynchus), which I plan to go back and photograph on one of my next dives at La Jolla Shores. Check back soon to see the pictures!