I did the East Coast Divers shore dive to Cathedral Rocks today. It’s been a while since I dove Cathedral—it’s a pretty site, but not my favorite, because it requires shlepping all your gear down about 50 feet of rocks, and generally, I find, by the time I’ve got all my gear by the water, I’m overheated, sweating like a pig, tired, and winded. It can also be a difficult site to get in and out of if the water turns rough. It didn’t help that a couple of my first dives here were on very hot days, and that I had a nasty fall here in 2004 that resulted in a bad gash on my leg that kept me out of the water for about a month.
Fortunately, the weather wasn’t too hot or too choppy today, and I had a couple of good dives. Despite (or perhaps because of) the large number of lobster traps, I didn’t see too many lobsters or crabs. I did see I striper while snorkeling out, and a couple of schools of pollock that were too far away for photography. So mainly, I shot seaweed and starfish:
![Some sort of brown algae](https://tedohara.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/IMG_3109-1024x768.jpg)
![Algae "leaf"](https://tedohara.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/IMG_3117-1024x768.jpg)
![Starfish](https://tedohara.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/IMG_3132-768x1024.jpg)
![brown feathery algae](https://tedohara.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/IMG_3141-1024x768.jpg)
![Pair of Starfish](https://tedohara.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/IMG_3144-1024x768.jpg)
![Sea Urchin](https://tedohara.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/IMG_3148-1024x768.jpg)
![Red Algae and starfish](https://tedohara.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/IMG_3151-1024x768.jpg)
![Algae "leaf"](https://tedohara.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/IMG_3160-1024x768.jpg)
![Green/brown algae](https://tedohara.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/IMG_3164-1024x768.jpg)
![Sea Lettuce](https://tedohara.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/IMG_3165-1024x768.jpg)