Sole Searchers Newsletters

Fun comes in many flavors and each year is fun in a different way. This year Gary decided that he wasn’t going to put up with a morning of light rain so he rented a little trailer in Santa Paula to ward off the wet. Naturally it didn’t rain and was perfect weather. The Santa Ana winds blew warm at night and occasionally an ocean breeze cooled things off. We got there early Friday playing hookey from work and most of the others showed up not long after. In all we had about twenty campers; Barbara and family, Soco, Jesus, Ericka, Juni, Glenn, Cecille, Andreas, Lilly, Fin, Mary, Gary, Kathleen and the four in my troop. Seems to add up quickly but we had plenty of space to all fit in with sites all abutting each other. I got lucky and had snagged the beach side site so we were all able to watch sunsets around the fire snacking on Kilbasa, Carne Asada, Home made Empanadas, along with all the fixings and Cheesecake for desert. All the neighbors were agreeable (once you got to know them too).

We pulled out the dive gear on Saturday morning and the water was a lovely 65 which was refreshing but sadly the vis wasn’t 65ft. Between that and Ceci’s continual mask flood we had an abridged dive but good practice for her having not geared up for a couple of years and she did pretty well. Naturally everything got sandy even though we made walking exits. Andreas and Lilly went kayaking with two people on a one person kayak. They did really well though the waves make it hard to tell which way is up.

A few walks on the beach and holding down comphy chairs and hammocks rounded out our weekend though many went bike riding. Refugio Road goes inland and makes for a quiet exploration on bicycle. Others preferred the beach side bike path. We had reserved through Monday so the park patrol wouldn’t chase us out but we also made an early afternoon return to stop in Santa Paula for Pumpkin Patch hunting. Happy Halloween to you all.

More pics here:
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Lars

Hey, there’s a write up about our club in the fall 2009 issue of Pasadena’s Rose Magazine!

Here’s what the article says.

SEARCHING FOR SOLE

YOU DON’T HAVE TO TRAVERSE the Pacific to get a glimpse of the creatures of the underwater world.  There’s plenty to see right off the beautiful, sunny coast of Southern California. Every month, members of the Sole Searchers Dive Club, www.solesearchersdiveclub.com, explore the waters of Laguna, Malibu and even Santa Barbara — observing creatures like Bat Rays, orange Garibaldi fish, sea fans, large crab and more.  The club is made up of beginners, dive instructors and dive masters from all over the San Gabriel Valley and Pasadena who meet the second Monday of every month. But before you make your first dive, make sure you obtain your required SCUBA diving certification. To find local dive shops that offer certification courses, visit www.ladiver.com

Rose Magazine is a publication of the Inland Custom Publishing Group, a division of the Inland Newspaper Group, and the San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group, which publishes the Pasadena Star-News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune and Whittier Daily News.

The two photos pictured are from the club 2008 Philippines trip.  The photos were taken at Verde Island, and the diver in the photo is none other than Jimmy Quan.