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As long as you're having fun, that's all that matters

(Last Updated Monday, 05-May-2008 14:32:43 PDT)

Rich hunting Halibut Bonnie converses with a scallop Spencer cooking dinner Rich and Bob Campout Potlucks! Mike's boat up in the air! Frank and his 9 31/32 Ab Jock and Molly with Jock's first halibut of 2001 Coral Street, Monterey A Seal Kim, Heather, Jenna Kris Bob is Cruel to my little fish

General

  • Club Wiki - Everyone can enter news and stuff!
  • About the Club
    (Meetings, dives, dues, etc) See the latest newsletter for the current calendar
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    Newsletter

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  • Did you notice these missing months...?
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  • July 2001

    Pictures

  • Mike and Jenna Mendoza, Rich and Molly Gibson, and Mike's Friend Ken go a Lobstering at Two Harbours, Catalina. (charles was there, but was on a different boat and didn't make it into any pictures-sorry) 10/2004
  • Bob Simpton's memorial service at Bodega Bay 11/09/2003
  • Underwater Pumpkin Carving - Keri, Rich and Molly, Tom Stone 10/26/2003
  • Jock's Channel Islands Lobster Trip 10/17-20/2003
  • Tomales Halibut Dive 10/4/2003
  • Van Damme 9/27-29/2002
  • Tomales-Bob's Halibut 9/7/2002
  • Van Damme 8/8-10/2002
  • Christmas Party 12/15/2001
  • Halibut and Lobster trips from 10/2000-10/2001
  • Schooner Landing, Albion, Campout 9/7-9/2001
  • Fisk Mill Non Club Ab Dive- 8/18/2001
  • Tomales Non Club Halibut Dive- 8/11/2001
  • Tomales Halibut Dive- 7/28/2001
  • Manchester Campout - 7/6-8/2001
  • Anchor Bay Campout Pictures - 6/8-10/2001
  • Point Arena Club Dive - 5/5/2001

    Good Stuff

  • California Diving News
  • THE SCUBA Show (from California Diving News)
  • Rocky's Great Diving Page (Abalone!)
  • Jed's Site-with the original RED Page
  • Lawson's Landing
    Where the elite meet to shoot Halibut
  • Anchor Bay Campground
    Great people, beautiful setting, big Abs, what could be better?
  • Sea Turtle Restoration Project
    Our Dec 2001 Speaker, Ron Gaul, is from this group.
  • California State Parks

    • Notes


  • May 2008 newsletter is up! Meeting this thursday May 8 at Round table.
  • April 2008 newsletter is up!
  • March 2008 newsletter is up!
  • December 2007 newsletter is up!
  • November 2007 newsletter is up! Meeting Nov 1st, Dive Sat the 3rd.
  • October 2007 newsletter is up
  • September 2007 newsletter is up
  • August 2007 newsletter is up
  • July 2007 newsletter is up
  • June 2007 newsletter is up
  • May 2007 newsletter is up
  • I've created a Google 'My Map' of some of the places we dive. It is on Google 'My Maps'. If you can't edit it, create your own 'my map' - then when you are done click the link on the right that says 'link to this page' - cut and paste the url that is created and send it to me. I can then merge it together with this map and create a good map for us.
  • There is some member interest in creating a collaborative list of GPS waypoints, and 'get me home' routes. Let me know, rich@testingrange.com, if you are interested in this.
  • A late addition to the newsletter-Charles' Ocean Cove Campout It will be fun!
  • May 2007 newsletter is up!
  • The Scuba Show 2007 flyer
  • Next Meeting is Thursday May 3rd, at Round Table.
  • April 2007 newsletter is up!
  • Mar 2007 newsletter is up!

    St. Patrick's day party 3/17, 6:00pm at Mike Mendoza's house.

    Meeting 3/1 at Round Table.

    California Ships to Reefs are doing a cool raffle, See the flyer! It includes a DUI dry suit. They may be guest speaking at the March meeting-but I am confused.

    Also, it is time to Fill out the membership form and the dive waiver and pay $50 in dues...

    And if you have an interest in Marine Protected Areas, and reserves, and other places where the plucky fisherman is going to be pushed away and/or the over stressed marine environment will be given a slight break, we have a map of Commission Preferred MPA'sfor the central coast.

  • The Dec 2006 Christmas party on Dec 16th at Dave and Irene's

  • The Nov 2006 newsletter is online. We have a great guest speaker for our 11/2/2006 meeting. Tom Kendrick will be speaking. An avid surfer, Tom fell into urchin diving, and spent 22 years gathering stories to tell us! Read Tom's press release. It is going to be a fun meeting! fell

  • The Oct 2006 newsletter is online.

  • The Sep 2006 newsletter is online.

  • The May 2006 newsletter is online. Meeting May 4th, Round Table

  • The April 2006 newsletter is online.

  • The March 2006 newsletter is online. Meeting Thursday March 2nd

  • The Feb 2006 newsletter is online.

  • The June 2005 newsletter is online. Meeting Thursday June 2nd, campout this weekend the 3-5th. And we have a guest speaker at the meeting: Jennifer Stock of the Cordell Bay Marine Sanctuary

  • The May 2005 newsletter is online. Meeting Thursday May 5, and awesome Arena Rock dive Sat May 7th. When the weather cooperates this is the best dive of the year!

  • The April 2005 newsletter is online.

  • The March 2005 newsletter is online. And there is a meeting Thursday March 8th at Round Table

  • The January 2005 newsletter is online. The January 6th meeting of the Redwood Empire Divers has a guest speaker scheduled.� Eugene Border of the Recreational Fish Alliance will be giving a presentation about the lobbying efforts the Alliance performs to help save sport fishing opportunities.� Please tell your friends to attend the meeting and check out their website at: www.joinrfa.org
  • The December 2004 newsletter is online. Meeting Thursday 12/2!
  • The November 2004 newsletter is online.
  • The October 2004 newsletter is online. Meeting Thursday 10/7! Halibut diving this Saturday at Tomales.
  • The August Newsletter is online, we have a meeting this Thursday 8/5. And a club campout this weekend at Van Damme!
  • The May Newsletter is online, and we have a meeting this Thursday 5/6. And a club dive on the 8th!
  • The April Newsletter is online, and we have a meeting this Thursday 4/1. And a club dive this Saturday. What do you want to bet that it's an ab dive?
  • The March Newsletter is online, and we have a meeting this Thursday 3/4. And we have a speaker!
  • The January Newsletter in online, and we have a meeting this Thursday 1/8. And we are diving Monterey this weekend.
  • The December Newsletter in online, and we have a meeting this Thursday 12/4.
  • Our good friend and club Treasurer Bob Simpton has passed away. There will be a service at sea spreading his ashes on November 8th at 1:00pm. Meet a bit earlier at the West End Marina in Bodega Bay.A
  • We now have a Redwood Empire Divers Wiki. This is a set of pages that anyone can edit...so please edit our wiki!
  • November came...and the November 2003 newsletter.
  • October has arrived, and with it the October 2003 newsletter.
  • Meeting October 2nd
  • The September 2003 newsletter is now online.
  • Meeting September 4th! Plan for the campout
  • Campout! September 5-7!
  • The August 2003 newsletter is now online.
  • Regular Meeting Thursday, August 7th at Round Table
  • Business Meeting 7/24/2003 7:00pm at the Redwood Cafe in Cotati. come one and all!
  • A small but tiny contingent of the club went to Monterey 7/11-13. Conditions were beautiful!
  • The July 2003 newsletter is now online. Here are Some Pictures of the August Van Damme trip.
  • Jed and Kim went to Bonaire and made a new friend, Robert Deal Jr. He took some great pictures and let us enjoy them!
  • The 2003 Schedule is online. Please check it and let me know about conflicts and what I have missed, etc.

    Happenings


    Saturday 1/19/2002 Bob Simpton, Rich Gibson and Molly Gibson had a sweet dive at Stillwater. And there are pictures (Rated 'R'). Bob caught a 30" Ling Cod, and then mocked Rich's China Cod.

    Thursday 1/17/2002 Business Meeting at The Powerhouse Brewing Company in Sebastopol. (directions)

    Saturday 1/5/2002 Monterey Dive. The weather was great! We had two wonderful days of diving.

    Saturday 12/15/2001 RED Christmas Party! Yeah for yuletide cheer!

    Saturday 12/8/2001 Dive at Stillwater Cove

    Thursday 12/6/2001 Meeting at Round Table Pizza, 7:00 pm Ron Gaul will speak!

    Thur 11/15/2001 Business Meeting at The Powerhouse in Sebastopol. We scheduled dives for next year!

    Sunday 10/28/2001 The November newsletter will be in the mail soon, and is on line Thursday 11/1/2001 Meeting at Round Table Pizza, 7:00 pm Peter Otis will speak!

    Saturday 11/2/2001 Day dive at Anchor Bay (but some members are making it a campout, so feel free to join us for the weekend!) 8:00 am

    Saturday 10/6/2001 Halibut Dive! What a great day. Here is one story of the day.

    Bill Davenport, Jock Doss and Bob Simpton were out three weekends ago and they couldn't see sand for all of the Halibut covering the bottom.

    Thursday 10/4/2001 Meeting at Round Table Pizza, 7:00 pm Abalone biologist Peter Otis will NOT be here-he has been rescheduled for November. Sorry!

    Tuesday 10/2/2001 The October newsletter is in the mail, and on line Thur 9/20/2001 Business Meeting at Moylan's off of Rowland Avenue in Novato. We decided that members who don't come to the regular meeting will be assigned all of the 'icky' chores.

    Relay for Life Member Cathy Irwin is participating in the Relay for Life to fight Cancer. Please Read her letter and contribute!

    Fri-Sun 9/7-9/2001 Albion Campout @ Schooner Landing. Last Campout of the year (boo hoo). It was great, and pictures are online.

    The September Newsletter is on line. And has been sent out. If you don't have yours then LET ME KNOW! (email rich@chilidog.com)...

    Thur 9/6/2001 We had a great general meeting. Four (!) new members.

    Sat 8/25/2001 Dave's BIG Ab Dive

    Sat 8/18/2001 Bob Simpton, Jock Doss, and Rich Gibson got together for a great Ab dive at Fisk Mill Cove. Great conditions, great company, beautiful weather, and lots of Abs. A pretty perfect outing (pictures).

    Thur 8/16/2001 Business Meeting. We had a MASSIVE turnout. All of the officers (Jock, Mike Mendoza, Jed, Bob, Rich), plus Kim, Gary (the Concience of the Club), Cathie Irwin, and two guests (!?). The conversation was hot, but the service was not as we waited up to an hour and a half for our food :-( Oh Well.

    8/11/2001 Jock, Rich, and Molly went abing and halibut diving in Tomales Bay (pictures). Rich learned that halibut are not large mouth bass, and that the right way to hold a halibut is not by putting your thumb in its' mouth.

    8/2-4/2001 Shelter Cove campout. Jed sent in a great report...it will be online when I get the newsletter up.

    Saturday 7/28/2001 we all met for a great Halibut Dive, sponsored by President Jock. Dave Batt got a 'butt while freediving (the Animal!). Jock came home with a Starry Flounder, which DK said sounded like some sort of magical creature, and someone in Mike's boat, but sadly not Mike, landed a salmon.