San Juan Islands!

[ScubaJess]

Greetings From the San Juan's!

[deep diver]

Nice! You're getting good with that camera Are you shore diving or off a boat?

[ScubaJess]

Thanks Dale! I'm boat diving off the Banditos! Went again today. :)It was excellent but no Candy Stripes.

[ScubaJess]

I hope you guys are having a great weekend!

Here's a few more shots from yesterday! Glad I got to see Scubie Doo on a Saturday day! Millions of Thanks to YellowEye for teaching me so much and helping me to edit my photos. I had the strobe in the wrong spot and thought most my pictures from the last dive didn't turn out. However he was able to save them!

[YellowEye]

Those were some great dives!

I got to meet up with some good old friends, like Yevgeniy, who I haven't seen in years... Rick and Jackie who its been too long. And also met some new friends!

Here were some of my snaps.

ScubaJess floats over a huge wall of anemones at Hicks Bay

The doc and scubie, here to do their business

Scuba Jess and Jumpin' Jack Diver

Rockfish at Turn Point

Strawberry Island

Not as many rockfish as you'd hope :(

Some of the reefs (especially Broken Point) look more barnacle-filled than usual :(

Lots of kelp and orange sea cucumbers at the top of the reef

This leather star was looking a little sad

Lots of cup corrals

The Three Amigos -- ScubaJess, h2odoc, Scubie

Lovely walls

Macro Action

Hope everyone had a good weekend!

[deep diver]

looks like a great time.
nice pictures

[Ryan Nelson]

Some pictures of our dives this past week first at Lime Kiln-



Then at Smallpox Bay-

[deep diver]

I like #5 very nice

[Scubie Doo]

Great day out on Banditos! It was very cool diving with everyone. Here are a few of my favorites from the dive trip.

Have a great week :-)







Large Puget Sound King Crab...


Medium Puget Sound King Crab...


Baby Puget Sound King Crab...

[ScubaJess]

Great Pics Yellow Eye! Love the 3 amigos shot! Also the Plumos shot is epic!!!
Very nice Ryan!!! I really like that Nudi on the kelp shot!
Jesse your warbonett is soooo cute! Love those Puget Sound Crabs. Great find!

[YellowEye]

Cool pix Jesse and Ryan!

Ryan, which of those sites did you enjoy more? Were they worth the trek? Did you guys see whales?

[Ryan Nelson]

Lime Kiln was cool for the fact that we were diving near Orcas and always looking over our shoulder for them. We did it from shore so there was a significant amount gear hauling but the dive was cool. Lots of current even near slack.

Smallpox bay was the exact opposite. Shallow 20ft dive and zero current. LOTS of Nudis in the cove. We didn't venture outside the cove the current was ripping. Very enjoyable and you park right where you enter.

[ScubaJess]

Smallpox bay has a scary name but sounds pretty cool! Thanks for the recap!

[CaptnJack]

Smallpox bay has a scary name but sounds pretty cool! Thanks for the recap!

Its totally safe even during exchanges, but you need to be sure to tow a dive flag as there's a boat ramp in it and its very shallow too.

[Ryan Nelson]

Yes, emphasis on shallow. The boat traffic looks to be mostly kayaks.
I guess the name was given to the cove because during the smallpox outbreak people would bathe in the clear water in hopes of curing themselves...

[CaptnJack]

Yes, emphasis on shallow. The boat traffic looks to be mostly kayaks.

"Mostly" yes. But I have launched my RIB there, which has a prop. I'd hate to kill a diver who didn't fly a flag when I had no idea they were there until the last second I saw their bubbles.