Same old dive site+different attitude=WOW!

[almitywife]

hi all

we have a dive site down here called Bare Island and we havent dived it for years becasue we thought the site was pretty much ho-hum

but about November we returned to the site and we are now diving it every other week, started exploring and asking other divers some questions and yesterday it just knocked my socks off and i cant keep thinking wow!!!

red indian fish, yellow seahorse, tiny tiny pygmie seahorses (pipehorse they called), big blue gropers, big big cuttle fish, lots of octopus, weedy sea dragons, schools fish and lots of colourful nudies.... all on one dive

Anyone else recently returned to a divesite they written off to be pleasantly surprised???

bare island:

 

[Tigerman]

Id be pleasantly supprised to dive any tropical water site i guess

 

[spectrum]

I can't say I've been in it long enough to return to a site as you have. What I have been doing is diving in locations not frequented by divers. Local beaches with perhaps a ledge leading out from shore. They have been some of the nicest dives and each location has a personality.

I bet it was a little like catching up with an old forgotten friend.

pete

 

[SparticleBrane]

Ironically enough, I like exploring in the local rock quarry--"Fantasy Lake". Most people write it off after they see a few training platforms, the bus, and the planes. If you go along the outer edges of the quarry you can see some neat stuff. I was pleasantly surprised on a recent dive at the amount of new things I saw.

 

[drbill]

I just spent the weekend diving our local dive park with the ScubaBoard Wrinkles Dive group. I've done well over 1,200 dives there alone yet I always find things to observe and film when I dive here. And, of course, the surface intervals were all the better thanks to the presence of so many ScubaBoard members!

 

[Scuba Duba Doo]

I wish I could get that wow factor back in the quarry......getting tired of training and seeing algea & grey walls.

woohoo

 

[PerroneFord]

I went back to Ginnie Springs several months after my Fundies course. Just spent some time in there working on buoyancy, and being still in the water. I was amazed at what I saw. By hovering near the steps to the devils run, I was able to observe where and how the fish hide, where the baby turles are stashed away by their mothers to keep them safe, etc.

Sometimes I wonder if people who get really bored with some of these sites are just in such a hurry, they swim past all the splendor.

 

[Meng_Tze]

I went back to Ginnie Springs several months after my Fundies course. Just spent some time in there working on buoyancy, and being still in the water. I was amazed at what I saw. By hovering near the steps to the devils run, I was able to observe where and how the fish hide, where the baby turles are stashed away by their mothers to keep them safe, etc.

Sometimes I wonder if people who get really bored with some of these sites are just in such a hurry, they swim past all the splendor.

And there is Soooo much more to see inside, just recently I was taken into the catacombs, man that a neat place.... always rushed by and never knew how cool that is.

 

[PerroneFord]

I did my cavern training there, but haven't been into the devil's system yet. Plenty of time for that next fall.

 

[TSandM]

Sometimes I wonder if people who get really bored with some of these sites are just in such a hurry, they swim past all the splendor.

There is SO much to that.

Around here, a lot of us nearly live in one dive site, called Cove 2, or "The Office". Why? Because it's accessible, and diveable in all tides and conditions. It is not the most interesting dive site, not having a ton of major structures. It suffers greatly from the pressure of heavy, constant diving, especially by OW classes. But Cove 2 can surprise you greatly. One of the very finest dives I've ever done in the Sound was a night training dive at Cove 2, where we came upon an absolutely enormous octopus who sat on the bottom just beneath me for several minutes. I was still grinning from ear to ear a half hour later, when we surfaced. This morning, Bob found a quillfish, something he had never seen before, and which I have never seen at all. Six gill sharks are occasionally to be seen there.

You have to go into every dive with a childlike air of expectation, and the willingness to go slowly and look intently. Almost any dive site has the potential to surprise.