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[bowlofpetunias]

The cold waters have their own special appeal. I sure found that in Tassie anyway. Can't wait to get back in the chuck around here.
Liv, I have heard great things about the Great Lakes. Sheesh did I actually say that...anyway...that place is on my Bucket List as well. Enjoy.

Well i confess I would like to dive the Great Lakes too... learned to swim in Lake Superior something draws me back...

what chuck are you talking about? up to Rupert or the Island or...

 

[bowlofpetunias]

We got to share bygollys wife's first salt water dive... she is a new diver but brilliant!

 

[bygolly]

Yes, and it's going to be a new experience for me diving in fresh water.

Yup....a touch less lead....less gear rinsing....usually lower vis and sometimes downright spooky but it sure has its good features. Ancient wrecks are still in good condition and they abound in the Lakes.

 

[bowlofpetunias]

I've only done one fresh water dive... in Ewen Ponds not that far from you liv... amazing viz... pure clear at 9 m and look at the clouds ... surreal

 

[bygolly]

Well i confess I would like to dive the Great Lakes too... learned to swim in Lake Superior something draws me back...

what chuck are you talking about? up to Rupert or the Island or...

well I would like to get back and visit some old haunts around Victoria and Nanaimo but I am really keen to explore the waters around Rupert, Bella Coola and Stewart. Gotta buy a compressor for those places.....or invest in some more bottles.

 

[bowlofpetunias]

Yup....a touch less lead....less gear rinsing....usually lower vis and sometimes downright spooky but it sure has its good features. Ancient wrecks are still in good condition and they abound in the Lakes.

Tiggrr who is one of our friends here and NZ dive regularly on the lakes they are on the US side I should know better but I always thought of clear viz in fresh but that would have to be spring ooohhh cold...

 

[thanksforallthefish]

well I would like to get back and visit some old haunts around Victoria and Nanaimo but I am really keen to explore the waters around Rupert, Bella Coola and Stewart. Gotta buy a compressor for those places.....or invest in some more bottles.

Bella Coola ... count me in


Hi Bygolly, Liv

 

[bowlofpetunias]

well I would like to get back and visit some old haunts around Victoria and Nanaimo but I am really keen to explore the waters around Rupert, Bella Coola and Stewart. Gotta buy a compressor for those places.....or invest in some more bottles.

oh boy so glad fish isn't here... he is fixated on goind to Bella Coola for some reason... saw it on the map... just wants to go there... middle of no where baffles me... don't tell you you can dive there... He'll tell me he will take me diving there just so he can go there

 

[bygolly]

I've only done one fresh water dive... in Ewen Ponds not that far from you liv... amazing viz... pure clear at 9 m and look at the clouds ... surreal

On one of my helicopter flights NE of here I spotted a lake that had that "colour". It looked just like the clear sea water of the GBR. I have since found out that Washeeda lake is a limestone lake with amazing vis...approaching 75-100 ft (so they say). This one will be an altitude dive but it is now on the bucket list. Pavilion Lake, on the way to Lillooet from Cache Creek is another one of those lakes. I dove there last year and enjoyed the 75+ feet of vis as well as the freshwater stromatolite reefs. Google that one.

 

[thanksforallthefish]

My Bella Coola radar tweaked ...