Hood Canal

[deep diver]

Another great day on the hood canal. Vis above 40' was about 30' and down past 60 - 100' was a good 40' vis.

Herring balls are in so there were a lot of dog fish, just didn't any pictures of them. Lots of seals darting around, but my camera or I was not fast enough to get a picture.

Found this war bonnet about 95'. Lots of nudi's all different sizes. Still quite a few lion manes and moon jellies.
Noticed a lot of large rock fish in the shallows, hopefully the oxygen is not a problem this early in the year.

[Dusty2]

Nice shot on the namiamo and the whiteline!

[Blaiz]

on the egg ribbon picture, there are egg deposits, but they all look different. assuming the little slug shown is not a masochist, which of the two bundles are hers?

[Dusty2]

The lower one. The big one looks like it might be a shaggy mouse. If you look real close there is a tiny third egg mass inside the larger egg mass in the lower left. Also there is another nudie inside the large ring on the left side.

That's what I like about criters. The closer you look the more you see.

[Bric Martin]

My highlight of the day was when Dale gave me the signal that something big was swimming around. After a moment Dale tossed up his hands and started to swim off, on cue right behind his back a seal appeared. The seal cocked it's head and playfully turned upside down and just as Dale turned around it swam away! I laughed in my reg!

[deep diver]

amazing what shows up in a picture when you get it on the computer!
nice, very nice pics, Bric
too bad you didn't get the seal picture

thanks, great dive

[Blaiz]

The lower one. The big one looks like it might be a shaggy mouse. If you look real close there is a tiny third egg mass inside the larger egg mass in the lower left. Also there is another nudie inside the large ring on the left side.

jeepers dusty, do you have your computer hooked up to a 67 inch high def monitor or something?? nice find on the hidey slug



and, I notice the majority of the egg yolks are at the top of the egg. is that random? does the yolk float to the top? is it closer to sunlight that way?

[Dusty2]

jeepers dusty, do you have your computer hooked up to a 67 inch high def monitor or something?? nice find on the hidey slug
and, I notice the majority of the egg yolks are at the top of the egg. is that random? does the yolk float to the top? is it closer to sunlight that way?

Nope 24" HP wide screen, but very programed brain that is used to looking for the really small stuff.

[dphershman]

I did a couple of dives with Pac Adventure on the Canal yesterday as well... viz was 40 feet at West Wall and over 30 at the Pinnacle. Pretty amazing!

Over/Under of the Downtime


Nose to Nose with a Lingcod


Andy at the safety stop

[cardiver]

Nice shots, Bric!

[Bric Martin]

Hey Ron, it's good to see you back!

[gutholmj]

Dale, you starting to get some nice exposures. I think you've made it to the threshold where now using the strobes more effectively that what you could have got with your built-in flash.

Hopefully we'll have some great vis this weekend.