So down the rope I go and the deeper I go the wetter I'm getting and I need to constantly add air to my suit to maintain boyancy. 
well maybe my exhaust valve is leaking oh well I'm at the bottle field and the viz ain't bad but the water has filled my left arm and is starting toward the southern hemisphere but there has got to be a lumpie down here somewhere and I'll be dammed if I'm going to wimp out now so around I go looking and no luck finding anything but after what seems like an hour I still have 2400 lbs and I really shouldn't let a little water keep me from finding that little guy. So I start to do another circle and the water has reached the critical equipment and is now heading for my feet and this dang suit won't stay inflated. 
:angry: :angry: so the circle gets real small and I'm heading back north and uphill. Now I realize my folly cause headed uphill is not the way one should head when their suit is half full of water. :pinch: :pinch: So I do my safety stop kinda..... and now it's a long walk to the stairs and I'm realizing I weigh about 20+ lbs more than I did going in iI'm half froze and it's a long ways to the truck! Can you say low tide?Anyway I make it back huffing and panting and explaining to everyone that I am not in a dry suit I'm in a Bare aquarium suit! :angry: :angry:
Long story short I had a 1" place in my zipper that had come open at the left shoulder which means new zipper 
or an excuse to retire the old girl. 
So I called walley and he sez 300 up for a new zipper and 3 to 6 weeks to get it back from Bare "BUT" Bare has a special on that gets me a free undergarment of my choice with a purchase by monday??? SOOO I guess it's early christmas for me?? 
Had two great dives with Mr & Mrs Bob the Diver. After bubble checks we decend and after the all OK we head down the rope to the Carrousel boat. Just about at the tire pile I turn and Bob is motioning and what do I see a small about 1 foot long Octo swimming along. Of course Bob and I have camera's so and the Octo heads to the tire pile. What would you do if two big black strange creatures were after you? 
Bob was able to get a good pic before the Octo tucked away into the tires.Then we continued on our journey of searching for subjects to blind with our flashes. 
Went up to the pipe and seems that there are always those (?) fish swimming around the end of the pipe and inside. they must be use to divers as they dont really get spooked or run off.Then Mrs. Bob ( cause either I dont remember or never heard her name) and I wondered up to our safety stop and wonder where is Mr Bob. We Turn and can see he is just down slope doing something. he tells us after we surface he tried to get our attention but he ran into another small Octo and was trying to convince the octo to let him take a pic. 
Did anyone mention the TIDE was WAY!!!!! out today? Wow that was long walk back to the truck. I feel for you Dusty bad enough with all the gear to add weight from bringing back half the Puget Sound with you. 
We didn't make it diving yesterday, still too pooped from the trip, but we're heading off to the Easter egg hunt later this morning. The Weather Channel says it's supposed to be sunny today, but in Seattle I'm not sure what that means..........
, and agreed to take on all my "little buddy"-ness. The dive itself was awesome, if ungraceful on my part! 56 feet, 38 minutes, 42 degrees. I had on a new pair of mitts that is just slightly small on me, and had to have Chris help me get the second one on, and my new boots didn't fit particularly well in my old fins, so I also needed help getting out of my fins at the end of the dive 
dang camera! so we continued on. i showed chuck the usual sites, out to the rock wall and VW and then back. viz was decent, anywhere from 15-20' at times. we saw a few nudis and gunnels and warbonnets tucked into their usual crevices. 
I know, many must have seen it and tried to read the note. And for the record, E_Mo is my witness,"I did not put it there." Actually Greatfuldiver went in before us...
and was sure he knew what was in the bottle along with the note. 
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By the way, what were you pointing out to me in the small hole in the pipe railing? My eyes are not to good close up underwater any more. Sorry I skipped a second dive. I just have to get dry gloves and my rock boots have gotten so tight my feet freeze.