Bw 4/9

[mech]

Chris,
There is a bunch of fancy looking shrimp out.
I've seen wolf eels,schools of squid (the squid is actually pretty cool)and tons of fish.
Between the kelp and the wall around 40' in the sand you see octipi (I'm still not used to the plural form of that word but what the heck).I saw six a few dives back.
My 18watt throws some spooky shadows around the kelp and the rocks.
It gets kinda interesting seeing them shadows and then getting bumped hard by the seals using my light as a hunting tool.
This time slot has so much more life than your agerage dusk nite dive.
I'm thinking the critters take several hours to up and about so you really aint seeing the real deal at dusk.
Madness?? yeah kinda.... but I'm not the Lamo that sent an OW class out in a storm and needed the CG (and Mark)to rescue them.
And yes free parking rocks.
Andy

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

Zinmaker, you're not getting away with anything. Parking is free
till 9.


Chuck

 

[JustinW]

Chuck, I think thats the point Zinmaker was...uhh making.

 

[zinmaker]

Actually I didn't know it was free, just new the meter lady wouldn't be up that early to check, what time do they stop checking or is parking free in the evening for night dives? I've seen the meter maid out at about 10 am, the breakwater must be one of the first stops. I did get to watch a diver once in the morning running towards thier car in full gear with the meter maid pulling out her ticket device. I envy a diver that can get up and be in the water by 4:30 in the morning, you deserve the prima donna parking spot at the stairs.

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

I know it starts at 9, the ending time is posted on the meters. I don't worry about it
because I park in the boat trailer area and just get the $12 all-day. It saves the
stomach lining. I think I had about $600 worth this year.

Be careful calling them "maids", one of them is a guy who looks like he could play in the
NFL. ;-) And until recently another one of them was male fellow diver (he's stilll male,
and still diving, just has another job ;-)

Another parking trick is that cars without trailers can park in the boat trailer area
after noon. A crafty club scheduling an afternoon breakwater dive will time it so they
arrive right at noon and use those spots.

I suspect the parking will be a zoo tomorrow. It's the first decent day since Salmon
season opened, and the word from my whaler buddies is that they are biting.


Chuck

 

[mweitz]

ROFLMAO, I missed this thread. Stupidman shirt would have been more like it

Man, I cleaned the heck out of my gear on the 9th and there was STILL LOTS of sand in it when I packed it up Friday night. I'm hoping that the couple of dives we did yesterday and the thorough cleaning I gave them got those stragglers. Crawling exits are not fun.

The saying "live and learn" is very appopriate for diving. Sometimes, if you live, you learned

Mark

 

[mossym]

ain't that the truth, way to go mark

 

[JustinW]

I looked at the meters this morning, 9am to 8pm "no exceptions." Believe it or not, there weren't as many salmon boats this weekend as I expected, yes it was a very nice weekend at the breakwater, what a difference a week can make