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[Desert_Diver]

I must admit that it is always disconcerting when clients do the double take after speaking to me on the phone and then meeting me in person but at least they are meeting me in a suit and a downtown office...

You were annoyed by it, but I wish bouncers were still carding *me*....
ya think the grey hair is a dead give-away?



Frank, pictures are always appreciated!

[WreckWench]

I.... caaaaaaan't heeeeeear you.. LOL...

Thank you both... I usually just put them up and then never get any feed back, so as I said, never know if it's worth the Time & Effort. I happen to think it's fun to see the group doing diving stuff...

thanx again, I will 'Press On', as they say at the laundry...

Now Frank I ALWAYS tell you how much I love your pictures! Now don't make me pull up my pm's to you and all my posts to prove my point! But just in case you aren't quite clear....


Can you hear me now?


How about now?


Are you LISTENING????


BY THE WAY....I think your pictures are GREAT!!!!!!


Correction....I LOVE YOUR PICTURES!!!!

[finGrabber]

I.... caaaaaaan't heeeeeear you.. LOL...

Thank you both... I usually just put them up and then never get any feed back, so as I said, never know if it's worth the Time & Effort. I happen to think it's fun to see the group doing diving stuff...

thanx again, I will 'Press On', as they say at the laundry...

Now Frank I ALWAYS tell you how much I love your pictures! Now don't make me pull up my pm's to you and all my posts to prove my point! But just in case you aren't quite clear....


Can you hear me now?


How about now?


Are you LISTENING????


BY THE WAY....I think your pictures are GREAT!!!!!!


Correction....I LOVE YOUR PICTURES!!!!

Yeah, what Wenchie said!!

FBP, your pictures rock!

[Brinybay]

I'm old enough to write my own notes, dammit!!

Ooo, that's right, you're a lawyer! "Here's the note you requested!" she said, as she opened her briefcase and began pulling out reams of legal mumbo-jumbo. zzzzzz...

Edited by Brinybay, 21 May 2006 - 12:43 AM.

[fbp]

Heheh... Ok, Ok... got it...

Can you hear me now??

Thanx...

I'll keep on posting....




Dinner anyone???

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[Brinybay]

Date: May 14, 2006
Location: Zee’s Reef, Tacoma
Dive Buddy(s) Kamala Shadduck
Weather: Sunny and warm, mid-70s
Surface Conditions: Calm, no surface current.
Max Depth: 44fsw Bottom Time: :57
Submerged Conditions - Visibility: 10-15ft. Currents: None. Water Temp: 51F.
Dive Begin Time: 11:24am
Equipment notes: Batteries in dive light went dead.
Enjoyment factor: Very Good

Second dive on the Banditos with the Single Divers group. Gorgeous weather!

I was teamed with Kamala for this dive. Nicolle and I were geared up before anybody else, so we jumped in the water, had a water fight and sang a dive song parody while we waited for the others.

Kamala’s little purple BC reminded me of an old song, “Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini”. It kept going through my head, only with different words, “1, 2, 3, 4, tell the people what she wore!" Chorus: “It was an itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny purple colored travel BC, that she wore for the first time that day!”

Visibility was a bit murky even by NW standards, 10-15ft. It was made worse by the fact that I was only equipped with my backup light and the batteries were weak. In fact, they died during the dive. None-the-less, Kamala was good luck to have as a buddy. Her first visit last year she found a large GPO that put on a show. I was on that dive last year and didn’t see squat, but I wasn’t buddied with her last year, so I was hoping Kamala would use her Texas charm to find it again.

Well, that bad news is that nobody on this dive saw a GPO. The good news is that Kamala’s charm worked in finding a large male wolf-eel out in the open that put on a show. It came out of it’s den and greeted a few of us. At one point it went back in, then came out and laid on it’s side and let us pet it. Awesome!

Kamala and I left the wolf-eel and continued down the reef. Along the way I harassed a sunflower seastar, one thing I can’t resist. They move relatively fast for a seastar and it’s fascinating to watch them. I kept trying to spot either a GPO or another wolf-eel by looking into the cracks and crevices, but w/o a light it was pretty much a lost cause trying to spot one. ¾ the way into the dive I wanted to go back to play with the wolf-eel again, so I signaled Kamala to reverse direction. We spotted an orange-tipped nudibranch and a large lemon-peel nudibranch, also a hermit crab with a really cool shell.

We didn’t quite make it back to the wolf-eel. After nearly an hour of bottom time I was getting chilled, and I knew Kamala was probably getting that way too. Most of our air supply was used so we surfaced. Overall, a very nice dive!

The two still pics are samples from my collection (from other dives) of the nudibranchs we saw.


Here is a very good video I found of a wolf-eel that was similar in size and behaviour of the one we saw:

Wolf-eel video

Edited by Brinybay, 21 May 2006 - 10:01 PM.

[Dive_Girl]

I took some divers out on Bandito yesterday and we dove Sunrise and then hit Zee's Reef. On Zee's Reef, I took the divers to the Wolf Eel den, ready for it this time around. I made eye contact and out he came! I don't actively touch but he, acting like a cat, dove in and out of my hands. For the record, Wolf Eel are bumpy and slimey! I also had a quillback rockfish who seemed way to interested in my bare hands staying in front of me swimming backwards for the whole dive!

We searched further spotting tons of different nudibranch, two of which were the ones BrinyBay featured above, and I did find an octo den!! Small opening, but huge den and it was moving all about in there. I really wish we had found that one last weekend.

Guess visiting divers will just have to come back. Zee's Reef was pretty spectacular this weekend again, so I will write up a dive report when I have a moment.

The dives were good, the weather held, but ultimately RJ and I did miss the SD crowd very much though!