Northwest Dive Club

Tom -- Appreciate the report -- wish I could have made it. Hopefully next time!

Awesome octo-on-kelp photos!!

Great skate eye shot! You seem to have been very lucky with skates this year!

Glad you had a great trip! That wolfeel shot is wicked!

Snake Island is my favorite too. Did you find the overhangs?

Did you mean Clark Rock for the last dive? Duncan is in Neah Bay.

--Eric

Awesome!
I love the 4th picture and the hooded nudibranchs pictures especially.
I really wanted to go this year, but I'm too busy with work thru end of october, so thanks for sharing.

Sweet pics! Keep 'em comin'! Get any hooded nudibranch pics? I still need to get out there and take some more pics of those.

Where is the best eelgrass bed at redondo?

This was my first dive using a wide angle dome port on my G10 - and we had some great vis to play with. I still have some wrinkles to iron out, but overall I was pretty happy with the results. I would have liked to do another dive with my macro lens though - there were tons of nudibranchs (at least...

Thanks for the trip report and video, Novice!

Tom:

Tom Nic wrote:Club Dive spot?!?

I've had Ansell Point and Whytecliff Park in Howe Sound on my to-do list for years now. Charter could be cool too. I'd be up for a trip!


-Eric

LCF wrote:Great to hear about an Orcas site! Sounds like it would benefit from scooters.

Hi
I wouldn't recommend seeking this out as a scooter dive or shore dive unless you were already on Orcas. You'll hit better sites, get more dives in, and be safer if you take a boat charter in the San Juans.

Hi Franroque (Francis) and I went diving at Brown Rock/Obstruction Pass, on Orcas yesterday. It is the shore dive with the longest surface swim I've ever done! Probably twice as far as muck oil docs? Luckily the current swept us back to the entry at the end of the dive! Anyway, it's a pretty average...

Awesome pics, great site!
I really like the first pic.

Thanks for sharing!

Camerone and I went for a dive at Redondo yesterday morning. Viz was quite great during the dive, until the very end in the shallows, when it went completely foul with a red brown icky muck. Still lots of octos in abundance, and we also got to see the hooded nudibranchs again. This time I had my cam...

Indeed! Looks like the same one. I think Tom Nic got a photo of it too!
Did you see the bigger octo in the pipe just nearby? (big pile of shells out in front)

Very cool.
I saw a big one out at Neah Bay a few years back. That was quite a sight!
Jesse also found and photo'd a skate recently. Let's hope to find more!

Very cool!

Thanks everybody! Great resources to have. The planyourdive.com site looks particularly useful!



Thanks!
-Eric

Hi
I usually get my tides and current info from http://www.dairiki.org. However, the last couple days, I've been getting a "502 Bad Gateway" error from this site.

Anybody have any alternatives they may suggest (for pc, not mobile)

Thanks!
-Eric

Hi
A bunch of us last night went to Three Tree for some more night diving in the blue bioluminescence. Great diving!

Here are some of the pictures: There was also a wolfeel present, but I didn't get any good pictures of it.
-Eric

Ummmm? 7:00pm splash for a first dive and then a 9:00pm splash for a second dive.

I'll be there!

Cool! I saw the blue too. I was waving my blue smurf gloves, wondering "What the heck, am I narc'ed? It looks like the blue is coming off my gloves'"

That's a really nice campground, especially in September once the crowds die down. Beautiful sunsets from there, and we also saw orcas swim by a couple times! Haven't dove there though!

Hi Francis Wow, I'm camping at Moran State Park that same weekend! (yes, planned 9 months in advanced to get that perfect spot! it's a great camping spot if you haven't been there yet.) I wasn't planning on diving but I could maybe be talked into it, else certainly snorkelling/kayaking. A quick sear...

Hi I found the following two pieces of information on sixgills on the internet recently. 1) Info on sixgill sibling behavior from the Seattle Aquarium (old, but I hadn't seen it) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNkFyjbPPII 2) Interesting info on dead sixgills being washed ashore from the Orca Network...

Great photos Dave!

And great photo GratefulDiver, and thanks for the info!

Hi DLH and I went diving at redondo last night. We spent 50 minutes at >90 feet looking for a shark, but didn't see any. We also ran into several other dive teams (including Grateful diver), none of them found a shark either. Oh well, great dive anyway. Sorry I didn't get any pictures, as I was havi...

I know, doesn't it just want to make you go?