nalfein
Contributor
My wife and I had the pleasure of doing a few dives with Abyssal Dive Lodge out of Quadra Island last Christmas. It was top notch, Uncle Pug was there at the same time, I believe he wrote a review on the board somewhere. The diving was beautiful, we dive in the Atlantic off Nova Scotia, I couldn't believe how much more life was in BC.
I've done the Saguenay in Lunenberg a few times, it's ok, kind of boring, not much life really. The Columbia was a whole new ball game, covered in life, several octopus make it their home, I think it's about 100' at absolute bottom, the current wasn't much at all. The captain ( I think his name is Earl ) really know's what he's doing, he gets you to the sites at slack, and lets you know where to go to see the good stuff. We did a beautiful drift called Row and be Damned, it's a wall that drops to about 100' I believe, we sat around 60' for most of it. I'm not good at gauging current, but you could turn and fin against it to stop and look at something without too much effort. Fish and life everywhere you looked, awesome, and good for lazy people... There was a cool back eddy as well, if you roll off the wall 10' or so, it starts taking you back in the other direction, neat stuff.
We didn't stay at the lodge, but we had the pleasure of heading back for an hour or so for some food. It's a beautiful chalet style home, very large, complete with hot tub and excellent meals. I would definitely look at staying there if my in laws didn't live in Courtney.
I love the east coast but it doesn't hold a candle to the life to be found out west. I had 46 F on all dives and it was the end of Dec, hard to get over the novelty of charter boats in the water past Nov.... We got 36 F today in 35', and not a charter boat to be found....ah well
safe diving all
safe diving all.....
I've done the Saguenay in Lunenberg a few times, it's ok, kind of boring, not much life really. The Columbia was a whole new ball game, covered in life, several octopus make it their home, I think it's about 100' at absolute bottom, the current wasn't much at all. The captain ( I think his name is Earl ) really know's what he's doing, he gets you to the sites at slack, and lets you know where to go to see the good stuff. We did a beautiful drift called Row and be Damned, it's a wall that drops to about 100' I believe, we sat around 60' for most of it. I'm not good at gauging current, but you could turn and fin against it to stop and look at something without too much effort. Fish and life everywhere you looked, awesome, and good for lazy people... There was a cool back eddy as well, if you roll off the wall 10' or so, it starts taking you back in the other direction, neat stuff.
We didn't stay at the lodge, but we had the pleasure of heading back for an hour or so for some food. It's a beautiful chalet style home, very large, complete with hot tub and excellent meals. I would definitely look at staying there if my in laws didn't live in Courtney.
I love the east coast but it doesn't hold a candle to the life to be found out west. I had 46 F on all dives and it was the end of Dec, hard to get over the novelty of charter boats in the water past Nov.... We got 36 F today in 35', and not a charter boat to be found....ah well
safe diving all
safe diving all.....