Shane and I had planned to survey a reef today but we needed a live boat to do it and our boat driver decided to go shopping instead...
Grrrrrrrrr..... Hello!!! This is science here..... grrrrrrrr......
Oh, well... we decided to get wet at the local hole... from which we could see across 3 miles of calm flat water to the (totally unoccupied by other boats) reef that we had intended on....
Arrrgghhhh... never mind....
Any way we headed straight out from the beach (on the scooters) and found a small runabout fiberglass boat at 115fsw... hmmm... well on up a little knoll to the troll.... he sits there in anywhere from 115fsw ~ 105fsw depending upon the tide... today he had 105fsw and a starfish sat on his head... literally... there was a start fish draped symetrically over his head and a large ling was resting peacefully at his feet... a rather surreal picture...
Not much to report on this dive except Shane spotted an octopus... he (not Shane, the octopus) had a crab in his grab and was obviously quite happy with it... and not about to let uninvited guests spoil his lunch.
Later we spotted some rototillers up the slope around 30fsw doing their best to harass the crab as well... we hovered over them un-noticed for a while admiring their efforts through the plumes of silt and debris they kicked up. Interesting creatures they always enter the water in pairs and then begin their ditching activities totally unaware of each other or anything else for that matter....
I thought about buzzing one with a low flying pass on the scooter and then remembered the warhammer maneuver and thought better of it.
Grrrrrrrrr..... Hello!!! This is science here..... grrrrrrrr......
Oh, well... we decided to get wet at the local hole... from which we could see across 3 miles of calm flat water to the (totally unoccupied by other boats) reef that we had intended on....
Arrrgghhhh... never mind....
Any way we headed straight out from the beach (on the scooters) and found a small runabout fiberglass boat at 115fsw... hmmm... well on up a little knoll to the troll.... he sits there in anywhere from 115fsw ~ 105fsw depending upon the tide... today he had 105fsw and a starfish sat on his head... literally... there was a start fish draped symetrically over his head and a large ling was resting peacefully at his feet... a rather surreal picture...
Not much to report on this dive except Shane spotted an octopus... he (not Shane, the octopus) had a crab in his grab and was obviously quite happy with it... and not about to let uninvited guests spoil his lunch.
Later we spotted some rototillers up the slope around 30fsw doing their best to harass the crab as well... we hovered over them un-noticed for a while admiring their efforts through the plumes of silt and debris they kicked up. Interesting creatures they always enter the water in pairs and then begin their ditching activities totally unaware of each other or anything else for that matter....
I thought about buzzing one with a low flying pass on the scooter and then remembered the warhammer maneuver and thought better of it.
