jeffkruse2000
Contributor
Dive Report for Saturday and Sunday, Day Island and Titlow.
Saturday we met at 1pm for a dive at Day Island wall. While we were suiting up, rather quietly since this is a residential area I made the mistake of smiling and saying "hello, how are you" to the home owner next to the public access. He stared me down and shouted "You know your not welcome here". We then tried to ignore him as he continued to complain that we were there. I wont be saying hi to him again.
We got in the water around 20 of 2. The current near shore and even at the wall was already moving south. Were we late? I don't know, it seems like there is a back eddy going on here. We slowly drifted with the current spotting many octopus and wolf eel. We got about half way down and decided to swim back along the top of the wall. Katrina stopped to take many pictures. I found a nice Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker a couple of feet away from the top of the wall. He was just sitting on a rock. It always makes the dive to see these little cute fish.
The vis was about 15 feet. Not great but good enough. It was like night at the bottom of the wall at 90'. The water was a cold 47 degrees.
Members of the Marker Buoy Dive club arrived just as we put our gear on. We chatted for a while but had to get in the water since the gear was getting heavy. They were just swimming out as we were coming in. I wonder if they had better timing than we did.
Sunday we dove Titlow. Again the current was moving south. Slack was predicted for 3pm. There must be a back eddy here as well or the water started flooding before 3pm. Either way it was only a 1/4 knot or so. The neat thing we saw on this dive was a big dead skate being eaten by giant sunflower starfish. You don't see that every day. We started at a couple of pilings to the south of the main group. There are some small ledges here with wolfeels. Then we swam to the north. We check out all the pilings from the old dock. We saw a couple of Decorated War bonnets in a big old barnacle shell. Other than that there was not a lot going on. The water was very cold. My hands were hurting. Time for new liners for the dry gloves.
Jeff
http://www.seanet.com/~katrinakruse/
Saturday we met at 1pm for a dive at Day Island wall. While we were suiting up, rather quietly since this is a residential area I made the mistake of smiling and saying "hello, how are you" to the home owner next to the public access. He stared me down and shouted "You know your not welcome here". We then tried to ignore him as he continued to complain that we were there. I wont be saying hi to him again.
We got in the water around 20 of 2. The current near shore and even at the wall was already moving south. Were we late? I don't know, it seems like there is a back eddy going on here. We slowly drifted with the current spotting many octopus and wolf eel. We got about half way down and decided to swim back along the top of the wall. Katrina stopped to take many pictures. I found a nice Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker a couple of feet away from the top of the wall. He was just sitting on a rock. It always makes the dive to see these little cute fish.
The vis was about 15 feet. Not great but good enough. It was like night at the bottom of the wall at 90'. The water was a cold 47 degrees.
Members of the Marker Buoy Dive club arrived just as we put our gear on. We chatted for a while but had to get in the water since the gear was getting heavy. They were just swimming out as we were coming in. I wonder if they had better timing than we did.
Sunday we dove Titlow. Again the current was moving south. Slack was predicted for 3pm. There must be a back eddy here as well or the water started flooding before 3pm. Either way it was only a 1/4 knot or so. The neat thing we saw on this dive was a big dead skate being eaten by giant sunflower starfish. You don't see that every day. We started at a couple of pilings to the south of the main group. There are some small ledges here with wolfeels. Then we swam to the north. We check out all the pilings from the old dock. We saw a couple of Decorated War bonnets in a big old barnacle shell. Other than that there was not a lot going on. The water was very cold. My hands were hurting. Time for new liners for the dry gloves.
Jeff
http://www.seanet.com/~katrinakruse/
