Todd and I set out to try and find a spot to dive with the less than ideal Swell Forcast. We ended up on the Metridium Fields (probably should have gone to Lovers after we heard how it was there) and it had been a while since either of us had been there for fun.
The thing I wasn’t excited about was diving in my wetsuit as my drysuit is still at DUI for repairs.
We swam out a little more than half way and decided it was time to drop. The wind waves were really making the swim feel like you weren’t moving. I wasn’t too sure on my lineups, but when we made it to the bottom and I went at 120 we hit the pipe in about 10 feet. SWEET! We swam out, and at the end swam at 0 until we hit the Metridium. Vis was interesting… there were walls of “Stuff” that would just disappear as you swam out clearing things to about 20 foot vis in the end. The Metridium were mostly open and there were a decent number of larger rock fish hanging around. If you looked up you could always see roughly 20 Sea Nettles above you, but I noticed these looked quite large, much larger than the ones I saw back in August. Otherwise the usual suspects including some larger sea lemon’s, nice dive. Swam back along the pipe and then to about 12 fsw and up. I did get to see my first Mola today, but sadly it was dead and in the process of getting eaten by about 20 starfish.
Todd and I decided one was enough since he would need a fill, and we were both cold enough 
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Dive #123: 54fsw for 42 minutes. Dove EAN30 since that’s what was in the HP 100. Vis was 20 feet +/- 15 feet depending on depth.
