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MONTEREY PENINSULA DIVE sheep head, bat ray, horn shark, ochre sea
AND FISH IDENTIFICATION CARD star, lingcod, spotted scorpion fish, giant
kelpfish and others are common to kelp
Side 1 shows Franko's Map of Monterey forests up and down the entire California
Peninsula, which consists of information coast. An ascending sea otter is also
borrowed from Franko's Map of shown, as he rises to the surface after a
Monterey, adapted to this fish card use. It hunt. Colorful invertebrates are common

shows the major dive sites of the in Monterey waters, and a few, including
peninsula, including Del Monte Beach, a nudibranch - the Spanish shawl, and a
Wharf #2, Coast Guard Wharf, bat star is shown. The fish card measure
Mertridium Field, Mc Abee Beach, (H x L) 5.5" x 8.5" (14cm x 21.6cm), is
Hopkins Reserve, Lover's Point, Otter printed on laminated plastic so that it is
Cove, Chase Reef, Coral Street, Point stiff, shiny and waterproof. It has a hole

Pinos, Moss Cove, Point Joe, Cypress for a lanyard, so you can actually take it
Point, Lingcod Reef, East Pescadero diving or snorkeling. Card makes a great
Pinnacle, Pescadero Pinnacles, Stillwater gift idea. Note that the card is sized just
Cove, Copper Roof House, Butterfly right for 3-ring binder-type dive logs.
House, Carmel River, Monastery Beach Divers who keep dive log booklets can put
and Mono-Lobo. The major roads, this card into their log book to keep track

including 17-Mile Drive and the show the of where they've been, plus what species
user how to get around everywhere from of fish they've seen.
the Monterey Bay Aquarium to Pacific
Grove, as well as Carmel, Pebble Beach,
Spanish Bay, Carmel Bay and Cannery
Row.

Side 2 is Franko's Monterey Peninsula
Kelp Forest Creatures. This side of the
card identifies 60+ species of fish and
other kelp forest creatures all beautifully
illustrated. Cooler water means a different
species than the fish cards from Southern

California, and so this fish card shows the
Wolf Eel and Monkey Face Eel, but it
does not show the moray eel or the spiny
lobster, which only lives further south.
Lots of kinds of rockfish are also

included. Certain species, such as the