I just logged my tenth dive yesterday! We went to the La Jolla shores.

I've been getting more and more comfortable underwater, and I feel like I'm able to control my buoyancy well too. I feel like the BC I use helps a lot with that, but also (and arguably more important) the breathing. Breathing and the pace and depth of your breath are so important in diving, and as one descends it's even more noticeable how inhaling can raise or lower you body. Also, the deeper you go the more the air is condensed (of course) and the wetsuit crushed down so to say. It's interesting, and an on-going endeavor, to become perfectly weighted and achieve a really comfortable neutral buoyancy at depth.

The La Jolla shores has been compared to the desert. It's a more beige landscape, with camouflaged plant and aquatic life. Thats not to say it's baron or boring though. In fact it's obviously an ideal spot for beginners and lazy divers! As I'm finding out, the shores tends to have much calmer waves and easier shore entries than some other spots in San Diego. That being said it's also the most familiar to me because I was taught in those waters.
And of the 10 dives, 9 of them were in the shores, so I'm by no means experienced!
But I'm learning and picking up some important experience.
Some of the life we tend to regularly see at the shores would include lots of sand dollars (which live upright like this going with the waves/current underwater.)

We have seen a couple octopi too, at the shores and cove.

                           Overall some really great shots from many other divers can be seen at divebums website. I've been loving looking through what other people have spotted at the same (or close to!) spots I have been at.
It's an addictive hobby.