Northwest Dive Club

Jan K wrote:Beautiful, well worth waiting for. All of you brought back wonderful record of diving in the tropics. Looking at the video and the stills is the next best thing next to being there. And avoiding the 50= hour ordeal to get there. Thank you !

Thanks Jan! The 50 hour ordeal was worth it!

Always great pics and great adventures. The shark photo is awesome and it's great SJ is in the photo for her very first dog fish sighting!

I finally completed the video of the adventure. Here's my contribution. Comments and critiques welcomed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBGKdzHcaAY

Most likely out.

Chubby lumpy in the bottle field.

I'm in!

Glad you made the trek gdog! Sorry I lost you 1 minute into the dive! Super colorful photos!

I'm a definite maybe.

I have 2 camp chairs I can bring. Let me know what else is needed.

Nice surprise in the zoanthids!

Love the above water shots SJ and VJW.

Excellent and detailed report Jesse. Was nice to relive the experience. Love all your pics but the tassled scorpion fish is other worldly.

Wish our stubbies were colored like the bobtail!

I'm in!

Great report Eric and Jess. You guys are fast! What an awesome trip! I'm still not adjusted to the time change. It will probably be a couple months for me to finish the video edit. But, I'm making progress. Thanks for coming along on the adventure and helping to make great memories.

I'm out. Will be back next week!

Looks like taking refuge from the cold is winning out. So no ThThTh this week!

6:30pm meet at Rendondo. Perhaps one of the few remaining chances to see lumpies. And, the tunnel is now open too! Lotsa distractions from the freezing temperatures!

Dive #2 at Billy's.

Gonna give it a go, traffic be damned!

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I'm going to test out the traffic and try and make it.

Out this week. Might try next week. Reports of carmageddon seem to be better than expected.

This is a pretty awesome blog comparing nudis to Ziggystardust.

https://bowiebranchia.tumblr.com/

14 lumpies and I didn't see a single one! Had to go back yesterday and found 6. Great pics gdog and a fun time. Sorry I'll be missing them till the tunnel opens in Feb!

6:30 meet at Redondo. Tides look good for lumpy hunting and winds not off the charts... yet.

This will most likely be my last ThThTh until the tunnel opens because traffic is going to be even more of a cluster than it is already!

Ventusky app:

I'm not sure. Forecast is 35mph south winds and there's an almost 14 foot exchange. So, will be super low tide. Halocline also makes for bad conditions for lumpy hunting.