One thing about doing dives out of the Fischnaller book is that you never know what you are going to find. Who would have thought skates would be the order of the day at Fox Island Bridge? Or that Scenic Beach would have an entire forest of sea whips over six feet tall?
I've come to love mud and sand sites. And I've come to love the journey getting to them. I can barely keep track of how many different parks I've visited the last year diving Fischnaller dives....and most of these parks are drop dead gorgeous!
Illahee State Park is no exception. And Saturday it seemed we had it all to ourselves. Oyster shells littered the beach, moon jellies were drifting by, and the viz looked excellent from the dock.
As usual I didn't know what to expect but immediately discovered the theme of the day: shaggy mouse nudibranchs. Thousands of them. Some stacked in piles a foot high. Egg ribbons on every piling, sometimes streaming off in the current like wisps of string. And the pilings themselves were caked with life. What an enjoyable dive!
Then the Illahee town pier....we entered and was expecting a tire reef. Here too the pilings were loaded with life. We found the tire reef and it went on...and on...and on...I checked my gage....brrr! It was 45 degrees! Time to head back. More moon jellies, large schools of fish, tubeworm bouquets everywhere.
Had a great time!
http://youtu.be/VLIuDoHeNFU
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Illahee State Park and Town Dock/Tire Reef
Re: Illahee State Park and Town Dock/Tire Reef
I like the video, thanks for posting it for us to watch. There were a ton of cool things to look at there. Looks I have added another site to look into.
Dave
Dave
Re: Illahee State Park and Town Dock/Tire Reef
Brrr? Thought you were toasty warm?? Is that wetsuit getting a big tired? ;;)
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Re: Illahee State Park and Town Dock/Tire Reef
New custom drysuit gets here in March.
Re: Illahee State Park and Town Dock/Tire Reef
Just in time to go on the shelf for all that summer wetsuit diving :pJeremy wrote:New custom drysuit gets here in March.
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