East Beach, Lake Crescent, WA

[nwlinux]

Had a great two-tank day at Lake Crescent yesterday. It was my first time at the site. The site has good access for a shore walk-in with restrooms available. Bring a mat to stand on while slipping on your gear. The parking lot is dusty.

At around 20 feet, the beach drops off down quickly to about 60-70 feet. Beware of snags protruding from the bottom. The bottom is very silty and kicks up quite a bit if feathered by fins. Oops. Water temp was 65-68 degrees. Dove with a Neotek2 semi-dry and was comfortable.

The barge was sitting at 26 feet. It looks like you could go inside. Overall, a pretty good set of dives with really nice visibility.

 

[nwlinux]

I started with 22#s of lead and dropped to 20#s. I had a little bit of trouble breaking the surface, but once I got down three feet or so the weight took over.

 

[Boarderguy]

I started with 22#s of lead and dropped to 20#s. I had a little bit of trouble breaking the surface, but once I got down three feet or so the weight took over.

Give your suit more time to ingress water while at the surface. You're most likely trapping a bit of air that doesn't get squeezed out until you fully submerge. Like I said in the other thread you started, I have the same suit. I would poor warm water into my suit to pre-warm everything and displace air. Once in the water I would hand out at the surface until I stopped feeling air pass my face and occasionally would break the seal to let water in.

I hope to get out to Crescent this summer. Sounds like an cool place.

 

[g2]

Cool!

Suggestion: Next time go to the left when entering the water, visit the 'Rock Pile' (I think that's what it's called).

It gets deep, but there's large house-sized boulders left over from the landslide that caused the lake. Pretty awesome.

 

[nwlinux]

Excellent! Thank you for the recommendation for the rock pile. Lake Crescent’s visibility is awesome. I’ll be back again soon!

Headed to Lake Cushman Monday to check out how many treasures I can find at Party Rock.