We had a nice time at the pond on Saturday; it was surprising that there werent too many people there. Nice day, weather was good and water was warm
until you hit about 28 feet then a nice little cool off layer. We did 35 foot max.
The kids had been in for their first dive for about 20 minutes when I got there. They had set up close to the north pontoon dock. They did about an hour dive on the north side by the plane while I chatted with the very personable people that were sharing the pavilion with us.
After the kids surfaced we did lunch, ice chest stuff. Sandwich and chips are pretty good.
After they got tanks filled we went to the south side
stopped by the Adventure Scuba site to see if Twobit happened to be there that day, he wasn't. We did Sisco the Shark as the step-daughter had never been there. She had a great time there, said it was the most fun she has had at the pond. Then went to the wall on the east side and did a little trip to the north. I was kinda a little surprised at the vis. on the south side of the pond; it was about 6-10 feet
in some places about 4 feet. Pretty good for that side of the pond, not many people there stirring things up.
We saw a few fish
the piranha perch were grouping but didnt attack. There were a few bass and some of the little balls of tiny fishies
cute little buggers. Got to see a few of the balls of fish at about 4 foot of vis. Lost the kids about 5 times when they got energetic and did the torpedo thing by trying to cover distance real quick while I was looking around and trying to take some pics., but that was not a problem. I found them eventually and they were O.K. and waiting on me, one time at the surface.
Yeah Frank, I still have that Blue Water Funk in my eyes
if I cant see it at 100 feet away I have to check it out a little closer.
We had a nice time, about an hour dive just playing around and having fun
and working on basic skills like water up nose, mask clearing (kid has got that one down) and working on the fear factors of being underwater and handling the normal irritations.
It was a nice day; step-daughter is improving her skills with every dive. She had a little shock when they did Puerto Vallarta a couple of months ago but she is recovering and learning from the shock of a nasty open ocean dive: low vis., cold water, currents-surge, the DM had her overweighted and not distibuted evenly so she kept getting the "roll" thing, and a very big open water place. She got a whole new meaning to open water.
I had fun, and so did everyone else. Thats the whole point.
I tried to post a few pics. but it still isn't working, said "upload failed." Put a few up
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