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WHALER’S COVE 20’ - 45’ Beg.- Adv. GIBSON BEACH 15' - 60' Int. - Adv.
Easy access from boat ramp. The middle Boat dive south of reserve boundary only.
reef is comprised of conglomerate Huge rocks and sandy patches host all
“Carmello” rock. This giant kelp forest kinds of fish, colorful invertebrates,
has many pockets for rockfish and hydrocorals and sea lions.
invertebrates.
The rules and regulations of Point Lobos
CANNERY POINT WALL 20’ - 70’ Int.- are noted as follows:
Adv. Three parallel walls are teeming
with colorful invertebrates. Wolf eels POINT LOBOS STATE RESERVE
cruise in the cold waters. Also, there are DIVING: Nothing may be taken or
lingcod, rockfish, senoritas, cabezon and disturbed. Diving only in designated area.
sea lions. Diving by permit only. Boating/Kayaking
by permit only. Park rangers issue
CANNERY POINT 10’ - 40’ Beg.- Int. permits. Ranger: (408) 624-4909 http://pt-
Easy access at boat ramp to shallow, thick lobos.parks.state.ca.us/scuba/diver.html
kelp forest and harbor seal rookery. Rich
in marine life, and extremely beautiful, Side 2 of Franko’s Map of Monterey is a
especially on a sunny day. zoom-out view to show the area from the
Northern edge of Big Sur, up through
CANNERY PT. PINNACLES 10’ - 130’ Monterey, around Monterey Bay and on
Int.- Adv. Boat dive or swim to vertical past Santa Cruz. The two-mile deep
walls and boulders. Cup corals, Monterey Canyon is shown in visually
strawberry anemones, and huge green stunning descending hues of Franko’s
anemones compete for space. Sharks in favorite colors - ocean blues. It looks as
the deep. if you can see right through the water into
the vast Monterey Canyon. A further
BLUEFISH WALL 10’ - 110’ Int.- Adv. zoom-out showing the Monterey Bay
Boat dive to sheer granite wall and National Marine Sanctuary accentuates
pinnacles that extend beyond kelp forest. the underwater bathymetry of the region,
Invertebrates include hydrocorals and from San Francisco Bay to San Simeon
yellow sponges. Occasional dolphins. State Beach. Also on side two, there are
zoom-ins of Monterey Harbor, which
BLUEFISH COVE 40’ - 100’ Adv. Boat details everyone’s need to get around
dive to thick kelp. Extremely dense downtown Monterey and Cannery Row,
marine life includes nudibranchs, plus the Wharf area; plus Moss Landing
anemones, colorful sponges, cabezon, and and Elkhorn Slough, which includes this
copper rockfish. Photogenic. Caution: biologically rich 6-mile long slough, the
Can be surgy or rough. beach and harbor. Kayakers will
especially like this detail. It also shows
