The local lobster and abalone farmers really appreciated Diablo's help :lol:.
Big storm tore up the breakwater at Diablo one winter. That big rip rap rock ain't cheap so they were using divers and cranes to recover what they could reach to reuse it. Fish and game watched those rocks like a hawk because they usually had abalone along for the ride. Dozer operator I knew was out there to push them big rocks around, part of the job was to pry the abalone off the rocks and fling them back in the sea. He would grab a bunch of like baseball sized rock and put them on the fender of the dozer before he went out to work the breakwater. See an abalone, grab a rock and the abalone bar, get off the tractor pry the abalone off the big rock chuck the little rock into the ocean, throw the abalone up on the dozer :rofl:.
