Treasure Island 12-13-2008

Dive Site: Laguna Beach-Treasure Island

Dive Date: 2008-12-13

Dive Number: 84

Start Time: 08:03

Dive Buddy: Tony and Randy

Bottom Time: :52

Max Depth: 31 ft

Water Temperature: 59 F

Water Visibility: 25-30 ft

Dive Type: Shore

This was a great dive. However, it was a long walk since we decided to park in the Aliso Beach Parking lot instead of the Treasure Island parking lot since we knew there was plenty of parking there. We did find out later about ample parking that was closer to our dive site. The dive site was easy to enter once we finally got there. There were hardly any waves to fight, but the water was a little choppy. We only swam a short distance to a wall outside of Treasure Cove. I then ascended with Tony and Randy to about 25 feet. The dive site was very shallow. I went no deeper than 30 feet. We swam around for a long time and saw some girabaldi and some lobster in cages. Toward the end of the dive we headed in the North East Direction and swam parallel to the beach no deeper than 15 feet so that we would not have to walk as far back to our cars. We managed to get about half way down the coast until one of us was low on air and exited the water. We then headed to a local restaurant for breakfast since we were hungry from all that walking and swimming.Next time we will park in the parking lot that is closer to Treasure Island and dive in the area that is to the right of the site which we dove.