Hi all,
Early (dark-thirty) Saturday I met Steve Weigold & his friend at a local
Dennys for breakfast, then we loaded Steve's gear in my mini-van & hauled
butt to Anacortes to catch Soundwave Scuba's boat the Misty Fjord. Turn
out to be a great day, nice weather (wasn't raining or snowing), great
scenery, and diving. I'm copying Nick's report below since he calls the
critters by name, instead of cute little fishies like I do. Steve had a
close encounter of the seal kind on our first dive.
--- NICHOLAS HARTMAN <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Well we had a great day of diving on the Misty Fiord up in Anacortes.
> We all met at 8:00 a.m. or before,
> up at the Anacortes Marina. Our first stop was Peapod Rock. A nice
> little dive around a little rock Island
> out in the middle of several large Islands, basically. It was quite
> beautiful. A lot of anenome life and some
> really cool glassy sea squirts and some Sea Cucumbers called "Orange Sea
> Cucumbers" and I got some
> video of the whole thing, including a nice Basket Star and several other
> really cool star fish. Another thing
> I like about the North Sound is the amazing amount of Sea Urchin life up
> there. We saw Purple Sea
> Urchins, Red Sea Urchins, Green Sea Urchins. The animal and plant life
> was abundant but there was
> an absence of larger animals because of the large Seal population in the
> area. We still did see many
> Quill Back Rock Fish, and Kelp Greenlings, and a few Ling Cod including
> one monster about Edmonds
> Underwater Park, sized. The name of the second dive spot was Strawberry
> Island, and I think I saw more
> Strawberry looking stuff on the first dive. The second dive turned out
> to be about a one or two knot
> drift dive, so if you can imagine I have some great video zipping along
> on a drift dive, kind of cool.
<snip>
Nick didn't mention the water temp., I recorded 40F!!!, someone else got a
reading of 39...ouch. Steve was really glad that he brought the new
drysuit. I didn't wear enough under garment on the first dive & my arms
went numb at one point. brrr!
The second dive was a drift dive like Nick mentioned, it had some
'interesting' upswells, there I was leisurely drifting along at 50+ feet,
when bamm, I'm at 35fsw, what a ride.
Good boat, good weather, good company, what more could you ask for?
Ed
Puget Sound Washington
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