Image

Monday, May 22, 2006 

Low Profile Keystone Dive

Wow, what a nice morning for a dive at Keystone Ferry Jetty. Sunny skies and small ferry lines greeted us. Hiller was nice enough to drive and we made easy time up to the park. There was a class going on, but we timed our entry to their exit and had most of the jetty to ourselves until the very end when the thundering herd and clouds of newby divers came by.

One instructor even kneeled on my fin as I took a shot, so I decided to use him as a foot stop and levered myself up! We could of shared our dive with fellow club members, but no one else showed up. Too bad!

Current was very low, we were near slck, so we went out to the end and even slightly around. I really was (trying to) focused on my camera and Hiller had better situational awareness of where we were. Viz was cloudy and up and down, maybe 10-15' - I've seen much better and worse. Certainly ok for a good poking around, and I found many Janolus fiscus nudis and one other Hermessenda crassicornis to shoot. Lots of the usual big Lings and Kelp Greenlings, which seemed happy the kelp was growing in so quickly. Hiller spotted only on octo and it blew a cloud of sand in his face and scooted back further into it's hole. We had a long hour dive to around 55' maybe.

We grabbed some food and had only a one boat wait back off the island.


About Jack

  • 55 year old adventurer, diver, sailor, photographer, writer and sometimes graphic designer. Volunteer scientific diver for The Seattle Aquarium. Enjoy the blog, check back and please leave comments!
My profile
Email me
Facebook

Optical Ocean Sales

    Jack's UW Photo Gear Store: OO Logo Olympus Cameras, Fantasea Line, Sea & Sea Strobes & Lighting Packages!
Image

www.flickr.com
This is a Flickr badge showing photos in a set called Pacific NW Diving. Make your own badge here.

Pixel Letch. Get yours at flagrantdisregard.com/flickr

Visitors:

 Subscribe in a reader

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Powered by FeedBurner

Add to Google

Add to My AOL

Top Blogs Sports

Photoblogs.org
View My Profile

Sports Blog Top Sites

Powered by Blogger

Creative Commons LicenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.