SeaYoda
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Please read the following disclaimer:
Today's pictures were an experiment. I set the focus to manual before the dive as practice for the cavern project. On the dive I had to open the aperture much wider than I thought in order to get any picture at all. The result was absolutely no focus. Please do not attempt to find focus in these shots - you may go blind!
Now to the report ....
The air temp is getting warm and the sun was out so surface conditions could not have been better. I had a detour to ScubaTech to pick up my pony from hydro and visual inspections before heading to the pond. I finally made it to the park around 09:30. I was surprised to find a parking spot inside the gate. I decided to make a pit-stop before heading to the water ---- what did I find?????
I'm glad we waited so long to have safe facilities !!!!!!
I loaded the sand yacht and headed out to the floating dock. I thought I'd see if I liked using it more than I expected. There was no one using the SCUBA Center or the bench. I geared up with just a couple people coming out of the water. I splashed and found viz to be green and chunky.
The cavern was clear as usual. I saw the gnome and a surprise visit by the watermelon boy. Flow seemed medium, not much sand blowing up from the bottom. There was a chain on the big boulder - it looks like someone was trying to open the hole wider. I think nothing moved and the hole looks about the same to me. Here are the fuzzy pictures from dive two - I had the cavern to myself on dive one.
Upon surfacing after dive one, I saw that I would no longer be diving off the floating dock. MBT had three classes going - gear and people were everywhere. I did see Halftime working with the newbies and his daughter was surface support.
Here are some surface pics that turned out OK with the locked manual settings:
If you look close in the last two pics you will see this little fellow:
I adjourned to meet with Sally about a certain cheeseburger matter and then on to the house. Not a bad day at all.
Today's pictures were an experiment. I set the focus to manual before the dive as practice for the cavern project. On the dive I had to open the aperture much wider than I thought in order to get any picture at all. The result was absolutely no focus. Please do not attempt to find focus in these shots - you may go blind!
Now to the report ....
The air temp is getting warm and the sun was out so surface conditions could not have been better. I had a detour to ScubaTech to pick up my pony from hydro and visual inspections before heading to the pond. I finally made it to the park around 09:30. I was surprised to find a parking spot inside the gate. I decided to make a pit-stop before heading to the water ---- what did I find?????
I'm glad we waited so long to have safe facilities !!!!!!
I loaded the sand yacht and headed out to the floating dock. I thought I'd see if I liked using it more than I expected. There was no one using the SCUBA Center or the bench. I geared up with just a couple people coming out of the water. I splashed and found viz to be green and chunky.
The cavern was clear as usual. I saw the gnome and a surprise visit by the watermelon boy. Flow seemed medium, not much sand blowing up from the bottom. There was a chain on the big boulder - it looks like someone was trying to open the hole wider. I think nothing moved and the hole looks about the same to me. Here are the fuzzy pictures from dive two - I had the cavern to myself on dive one.
Upon surfacing after dive one, I saw that I would no longer be diving off the floating dock. MBT had three classes going - gear and people were everywhere. I did see Halftime working with the newbies and his daughter was surface support.
Here are some surface pics that turned out OK with the locked manual settings:
If you look close in the last two pics you will see this little fellow:
I adjourned to meet with Sally about a certain cheeseburger matter and then on to the house. Not a bad day at all.