Scuba Diving Technical Diving Montana

Very nice dive with Ian today at Point Lobos.
Driving down Hwy 1, passing Monastery Beach, the water was dead calm, almost stagnant with not a wave in site. Whaler's cove was as calm as I've ever seen it. The parking lot was empty when we arrived with only 2 other divers later arriving to dive. It took us 90 minutes to finally get into the water after staging scooters, cameras and deco bottles, too slow!
Scootering out, there was no clear path on the surface as the kelp was too dense, so we dropped down to 10 feet and scootered under the canopy of kelp. Hitting the end of Middle Reef, we went took a 40 degree heading to Granite Point Wall, viz was about 20' or so. Heading NNW over the small sand area, then at 100' to the rock with the family of Metridiums we continued NNW to Cross Roads which is distinctively large, by then the viz had opened up to a nice 60 feet which gave me a chance to look around a bit at the various small pinnacles there.
Past Cross Roads, I was hoping I would be able to see the shadow of Montana, but no dice. As a fun exercise, with any buddy that is not so familiar with navigating to Montana, I took out m reel, tied off to the last rock before Montana and reeled out to Montana and dropping the reel at 140' we circumnavigated Montana with me doing video.
Nice, the viz was still 60' or better. Not the 20' of viz that I had last dive here! Got some decent video of the reef, with a cluster of majestic gorgonians! Then there was the congregation of multiple rock fish and had me wondering if it was a cleaning station of some kind. The water seemed very warm, perhaps it was diving in my backup CF200 compressed neoprene drysuit?
So 60' of viz, 155' max depth, 90 minute dive.