This past weekend was Yellowfinkunkfish's AOW class out at Lake Travis. I also had a DMC with me and Kunk hung out with us as well.
The first two dives were off the Giant Stride with Lake Travis scuba. We did Starns Island and the old scuba park. Having seen neither before, I enjoyed both dives. We had 8 divers on the boat. It was a little cramped, but I still think it is a great operation. I'm sending him a TSD sticker soon. We need to make his boat official. I'll use him for future classes. Texasdiveguy and In10se were with us. It was really good to see Alan and meet Larry.
Rhonda's bouyancy skills are fantastic for someone with just 50 dives. She can drop into a horizontal attidude, not kick up the bottom, and hold a safety stop very well.
Next we did a night dive at Windy Point. I really think we ended up with a drum Aplodinotus grunniens hunting with us. That or we saw a bunch of them.
Sunday was the last two dives including a navigation dive. We need more work here, but that will come. I know people with much more experience who can't run a compass under water.
We ended up seeing Bluegill, Red breast sunfish, green sunfish, longear sunfish, Rio Grande Cichlids, channel cats, drum, largemouth bass, and a carp.
We had multiple dives over an hour. The last was the shortest at about 35 minutes. Part of that was my sinuses had had enough. I haven't downloaded my comupter so I don't know water temps. It gets chilly below 65-70 feet.
We briefly met K-valve and zinc, and a pretty young lady with them, but I don't recall who she was. Air temps were hot and it was pretty still. A breeze would have been nice. We caught a couple really brief showers. Just enough to jack the humidity up a little bit. I admit, I was suprised at how few people were there at the park.
All in all, a really fine weekend.
The first two dives were off the Giant Stride with Lake Travis scuba. We did Starns Island and the old scuba park. Having seen neither before, I enjoyed both dives. We had 8 divers on the boat. It was a little cramped, but I still think it is a great operation. I'm sending him a TSD sticker soon. We need to make his boat official. I'll use him for future classes. Texasdiveguy and In10se were with us. It was really good to see Alan and meet Larry.
Rhonda's bouyancy skills are fantastic for someone with just 50 dives. She can drop into a horizontal attidude, not kick up the bottom, and hold a safety stop very well.
Next we did a night dive at Windy Point. I really think we ended up with a drum Aplodinotus grunniens hunting with us. That or we saw a bunch of them.
Sunday was the last two dives including a navigation dive. We need more work here, but that will come. I know people with much more experience who can't run a compass under water.
We ended up seeing Bluegill, Red breast sunfish, green sunfish, longear sunfish, Rio Grande Cichlids, channel cats, drum, largemouth bass, and a carp.
We had multiple dives over an hour. The last was the shortest at about 35 minutes. Part of that was my sinuses had had enough. I haven't downloaded my comupter so I don't know water temps. It gets chilly below 65-70 feet.
We briefly met K-valve and zinc, and a pretty young lady with them, but I don't recall who she was. Air temps were hot and it was pretty still. A breeze would have been nice. We caught a couple really brief showers. Just enough to jack the humidity up a little bit. I admit, I was suprised at how few people were there at the park.
All in all, a really fine weekend.
