Thanks for the trip report Ed... I certainly enjoyed the diving, and you
get a big thanks for setting it all up. I'll post my own trip report to the
list in a day or so as soon as I dig out from just getting back. The "seal
encounter" you mentioned was worth the price of admission :-).
I do have to agree with Chuck though.. I'd be tempted to ask for warmer
water <bwg> but hey.. thats why I bought a drysuit!
Steve
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SouthEast US Scuba Diving Travel list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Ed
> Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 9:46 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [SCUBA-SE] Day of Diving in the San Juans
>
>
> 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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