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Re: Sail and Paddle trip around Catalina
Posted By: Mike and Rikki In Response To: Re: Sail and Paddle trip around Catalina (Paul J)
Date: Friday, 30 May 2003, at 1:59 a.m.
Thanks! I was going to include menus, pictures, drawings and maps like we will in the book of our travels down the road, but just banged out something honestly for Robert to read before setting off. Hopefully to get him to write up a detailed report.
: Great write-up Mike. I especially like reading your menus - makes my mouth
: water! I've only been to Catalina a half-dozen times but it sure makes
: reading your post that much more engrossing when you've been there and
: know exactly what you're talking about. BTW - do GW's see color and would
: they be put off by a colored (like red or yellow) dry suit?Surely is neat to know where I'm referring to. I really like the Palisades part a lot, Our Spot is a real gem. We really like San Nick, Santa Rosa and our fav, San Miguel a lot.
GWs...well, they see color well, and in a larger light intensity range, too. One interesting avenue is the "other" perception that seemingly all potential food items seem to posses. That perception I'm referring to is the ability of pinipeds to just know a big white is in the area. It's uncanny. Another is how many divers suddenly sensed something and turned around to see a white nearby. That said, the sneak attack still gets its victims.
Back to colors...I was experimenting with a series of towed sealion shapes, one being painted in black and white stripes over many months. There's a better hit potential with yellow sealion shapes, in fact Sean Van Somejan coined the phrase "yummy yellow." I've also been conducting a pretty large survey while paddling of crab pot buoys off San Diego, Orange, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, and the offshore islands. A fair number have clear teeth marks. One, a large pool lane buoy that was white with three green stripes and a red stripe, had such obvious tooth puntures that I was able to return to it and take a wax casting (talk about a pain in the butt action). The best tooth casting was a triangular shape 1.9 inches deep. This was from the upper jaw of a white, the tooth had a missing tip. Also, I probe each serration for tooth fragments which positively identify the shark as a GW.
As you can tell, I'm an avid GW fan of sorts. There's a definite fascination about them. Now tiger sharks and bulls...they scare the hell out of me.
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