Two nice dives today - an wonderful sunny day at the lake. There is this huge bassmaster tourney underway at the lake today - we saw maybe 3-4 boats all day. Such is the beauty of clark hill. It is empty even on holidays and tourneys.
Dive one was a bit of a surface swim as we wanted to see where the new bouy was place (the previous bouy broke loose in a recent storm). Quite a swim. I volunteered to fix the old bouy for $3 (just needed a new caribiner clip, but the Corp has their own policies). I hope people don't use this new bouy (thinking it is the old one) as a waypoint for navigation because it is nowhere near where the old bouy
.
The old bouy was in 60' of water just north of the trench. The new bouy is in a different zip code
in 107' (full pool depth) half way down the 100' wall! Maybe, we hope, folks aren't using it for navigation - then again I'm not sure what they use it for.
Dive 1` was to max depth of 103' for 61 minutes - vis was 10-15'. We dove the remainder of the 100' wall, then turned south along the north wall to the big stump and past the old bouy anchors and dropping down again to the two huge stumps with lots of fish at about 70'. Then it was through the forest, the trench, the angel statue, the 40' ledge, back down to the 3 big rocks (lots of fish), and the plane. After an extended safety stop along the rocks we made our exit. A river otter was our surface interval entertainment.
Dive two was a cove entry (around the corner from the parking lot). We dove the stumps, down to the north wall, to the big stump, the 60' wall, down to the forest, to the entrance to the trench, then down to the 80' wall, the entire 80' wall (lots of fish at the dive flag and a nice cat just beyond). Then we were onward to the the missle, shoreward to the 3 big rock, the plane and a very extended safety stop (OK computer, maybe you will love me tomorrow
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