Back from a long weekend in Eastport Maine, (Bay of Fundy). Certainly the best diving in the Northeast, at least for viewing invertebrates and macro photography. Water was a balmy 52 degrees F. It's a six hour drive from Boston and well worth the trip. It's not the best location for a novice diver, you should be comfortable in the water first. For shore diving you must know the tide tables and dive at slack water. We also dove with Sparky Too (Deer Island, Canada) on the first trip on the new (used) boat and had a great time. The new boat (a converted scallop fishing boat) can easily take 10 divers and probably more.
In 5 sucessful dives I saw (excluding the various unidentified creatures and fish) northern sea stars, spiny sunstars, smooth sunstars, blood stars, basket stars, daisy brittle stars (horse and winged stars were seen by friends); frilled, northern red, and northern cerianthid anemones, red gilled and bushy backed nudibranchs; sea peach, sea vase, and stalked tunicates; finger sponges, crumb of bread sponges and others; red soft coral, slime worms, orange-footed sea cucumbers (none feeding), urchins everywhere (I've got the holes in my hands and gloves to prove it); mussels, scallops, snails, and welks; tublarian and solitary hydroids; large hermit crabs, the biggest damn lobster I've ever seen in the water, green crabs, rock crabs (shrimp were "everywhere" if you know how to spot them, I didn't); a rose fish, lots of sea ravens (including a beautiful yellow one), sculpins, grubbies, rock gunnels, flounder, ocean pout and
hand fed a wolfish.
For tropical divers this may not sound like a lot, but for the northeast is certainly is. I saw more new stuff on one dive than I've seen all summer diving in Southern New England.
I don't have any pictures, but if you're interested in a description of diving in the Eastport area with many great pictures see:
http://www.oceanicresearch.org/eastport.html
http://www.divernet.com/travel/0501canada.htm http://www.scubadiving.com/members/tripreports.php?s=107
http://www.scubadiving.com/members/tripreports.php?s=111
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/sparkytoo/
Ralph