Weather: The early morning hours were foggy and thick with salt spray because of the high tide and storm-spawned swells; we could barely see to the buoy for several hours. Visibility improved by afternoon, however, and was so good at sunset that I could briefly see an albatross arcing out at the limits of where my scope reaches. It was calm at Pt. Pinos all day, sunny in the afternoon, and the swell was monumental, the sort that gives you sea legs on land if you look at it in