As a youngster growing up here we often would go camping as a family and on many occasions we went to deception pass….playing on the beach, walking the forest trails and gazing up at these giant trees covered in thick green moss… my brother and I would catch crafish in Cranberry lake and wonder at what the heck they were ? I remember walking out on the bridge and gazing down at the giant fast moving waters below… seeing the whirlpools, and being amazed at how powerfull there are…Even today as I have been through the pass with Pensacola, I still shudder at the force and power of the pass, and the amount of green cold water that carves through this area… Millions of gallons of sea water every day full of rich food and Nutrients for even the smallest of life … Today I woke to dive this place .. today was my epic Moment , to get into the water below the bridge, actually get in the water and dive under the bridge,.. that so many few divers get to do a year… Well mother nature Blew her winds and caused a big mess today … and it didn’t happen..
I thought the winds weren’t going to be a Problemo , for some unknown reason I thought well there are mountains on both sides and the wind wont be a factor today … WRONG… Big wrong .. I got there with Mike , diesel Dude , and we walked down the path to the beach and my jar dropped… Huge whitecaps , massive wind .. and a total wrath of mother nature… it was storm city going on here.. Now I am a willing to push some dives and do them… But this was Not the place to test it here… If there is one thing I do know about Deception, its timing , and current… and if you don’t have the correct combination of tides .. you best not even bother to get in here .. there is some serious water flow here … and I mean major ..
So I look at mike and we head back up the Hill , as we get to the car I get a call from Super Coop who say that he is on the way down … Coop arrives looking quite spiffy and dam sexy in his Navy uniform to also witness the carnage below us and say to me” dude ya shoulda been here yesterday !!
“ And he was so right .. in sooooo many ways So I say to coop well we will try Rosario .. We hop back into the dive vehicles up and over the bridge to Rosario beach …and …..and….. ? It’s a fricken train wreck here also .. In fact its worse..way worse.. they are Logs being smashed onto the shore… what usually is a calm flat cove, has turned into a steven King horror Beach slasher Movie .. even the seagulls are afraid to land here … good night this place is smashing and crashing … well there is always Anacortes !! Back into the cars and 10 mins we are in Anacortes.. after a visit to the dive shop for spots to dive we decide on hitting the Marina, Sure why not ? I did in Alaska , might be cool to find some treasure , and its protected from the wind of fury… We found a beach site south of the marina that is being fixed and made into a really nice park ( in 2011 ) the whole site is fenced up and there is no acces to the beach… I thought no problem , I knock on the shack and see if I can work some charm… into the shack to talk to the foreman and he say that they are done with the beach stuff and he has no issues with us getting in a quick splash.. But we need to talk with the Port people who are in the other Gray building.. So off we go to talk with them..
Into the fancy building through some doors and we find a young guy behind a desk ..” hey can we dive ?” he says well lets ask the right guy… Moments later another guy in a nice suit say well where do you want to dive ? I said right out front here behind the nice fancy chain link fence .. He says well , we are not done dredging out there so it’s a No go… But you can dive in the Harbor .. I see divers diving , and fixing boats , and doing diver things all the time and you have my blessing… Now we have blessing !! But for the marina… So over the street , to the marina dock and down the ramp to talk to the fuel dock dude …. I said Hey , we want to jump off the dock , into the water …. Dive there … go along there …. And come up over there … all in about 35 mins …. Please ..please… please…. He says it’s a no on my dock, But you can walk down those rocks of death and get in over there … Me and Mike don’t like the rocks of death .. So now we opt Out again and go back to the cars to re asses the situation…
We now head North to go to another dive site which is supposed to be Pilings and a good site that the shops uses… we find it and its still low tide and the water is a mess and the waves are still swelling and crashing here also … Well .. I say to mike , what about the break water on the other side of the marina that we saw when we were standing there in the marina place that we couldn’t dive at but we wanted to dive at…? LOL So we dive there .. get out walk east on the beach about 500 yards and we make it… Only to find out its super shallow here , maybe 4 to 6 feet all the way out … Man this day sucks…
Back to the cars and my brain is fried , my attitude is poor , and Ive got no dive game on … Keystone today was also a nightmare as the ferry was docked and routes cancelled… I believe the only place we could have gotten a dive in was good ole Langley.. But I wasn’t about to drive there from Anacortes.. So I say good bye to mike , got in my Van and drove home … I will be back to deception May 5 or 6th , and you better believe Im getting my epic … thanks for reading and Now a funny Movie about 2 guys trying to dive ..
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once told me don't hate the playa, hate the game.
while you were trying to dive. Hard for me to feel real bad for you all 
