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La Jolla Shores
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North Pacific Ocean, United States of America
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INFORMATION
Location North Pacific Ocean, United States of America
Water type Salt water
Average current Not available
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DESCRIPTION
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La Jolla Shores is an about 1 mile long dive site located between the La Jolla beach(San Diego, California) and the La Jolla submarine canyon, where the most interesting part of the site is the ledge starting at around 50ft (15m) dropping down into the canyon far below, 600ft (183m)under the surface.
La Jolla usually have small waves, so it is easy to swim out the 100yards(91m) to where the drop begins, and also the place which contains most sea life. There are a lot of holes and small cracks in the ledge where small fish, lobster and octopus hide. Above the ledge leopard shark, turbot, surf perch, shovel nosed shark and sting ray usually swim by. On the north side of the ledge large sheepheads like to hang out. Since they are not afraid it's easy to come close to them, and they might even swim up to you. Under the sands a lot of stingrays and guitarfish are laying still until you get really close, so keep your hands away from the ground just in case. A little further out whales and dolphins can be sighted.
Diving here at night lots of crabs, lobster, shrimp, eel and octopus will emerge from the crevices and swim around the sands.

The most interesting time of period to dive at the La Jolla shores is probably the squid spawning around spring break when thousands of squid come up from the depths to spawn at the beginning of the drop off. Eggs will be covering the ground, and there are squid everywhere in the water. The eggs attract fish and large bat rays that feed on them.

Written by Fredrik Mattsson for DiversHotSpot.