Kevlax2
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I had a great day diving with Bandito Charters when I visited the Tacoma area. Highly recommend them.
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I thought I'd post here instead of starting a new thread, don't want to get the "thats already been asked" post,
I'm currently going through a NAUI IDC and wondering if anyone can recommend a LDS or club etc. in the South sound area that can help me out getting re-familiarized with local dive spots and conditions? I haven't dove out that way since 2000, current plan is to be back there in April.
(Yes, I have no imagination when it comes to screen names.)
I am not so sure I agree about the difference between Monterey and Puget Sound shore dives. I had a great dive trip to Monterey in November (highlight being surrounded by moon jellies when a mola mola swam through). I did not find the marine life to be any where near as plentiful as in places like Edmonds.
The plumose anemone, number and variety of rock fish, lingcod, cabezon, and nudi's are pretty amazing up here. Beside the moon jellies and mola mola, I very much enjoyed the sea pen, decorator crabs, different tube anemones, and of course the kelp forests in Monterey.
Good diving in both areas!
Have fun up here: hope your 14 hour drive up is as uneventful as mine was.
Cheers,
Dan
I have dived Puget Sound and Monterey, and think both offer some superb diving. I think the Breakwater is a lot like many of our easy shore dive sites -- a little silty, life where you can find it. Lobos is more like some of our better shore diving sites. And in both places, if you can get out on a boat, you can find the most amazing diving.
One has to remember that people going from one place to another are often perfectly happy at first with the newness of a different diving environment. My LA friends went gaga over alabaster nudibranchs at Les Davis, of all places, because they see that species infrequently and when they do, they are nowhere near as big.
So to the OP -- Don't let anybody tell you you can't have amazing dives here!