Les Davis on 2/12

[cardiver]

I'm happy to report that neither DiverBob or myself were molested, robbed, knifed, shot, or yelled at by any gangsters while gearing up at Les this afternoon. I was however molested by a gull that I must have pissed off. While getting ready to don my kit my first stage was struck by a large amount of seagull droppings! Enough to cover my first stage tank valve and a good portion of my long hose.
After entering the water and avoiding all of the logs and debris, Bob was kind enough to clean things up a bit. We dropped into 20 fsw and continued north to about 70 fsw before turning east. There were quite a few aggressive lings guarding eggs and I saw the largest Warbonnet I've ever seen at the tire piles. The only problem was, as soon as he saw me he backed away into a pipe. I must have taken 10 pics completely blind and I think one caught half of his face (I'll post it later).
On the way back in I noticed a VERY large ling on a huge pile of eggs and I gave him a wide berth. Bob came over and tapped my shoulder showing me that the LARGE ling had vanished. I finned back over to get in close and snap a pic of the eggs when, out of nowhere, here comes a very angry and very large ling! I'm glad no one was shooting video because I screamed like a school girl before I started laughing at myself for being so startled.
It turned out to be a great 60 minute dive and the first dive that Bob and I have done as a buddy team.
I look forward to diving with Bob and the rest of the Thursday night crew again next week!

[BASSMAN]

Nice report and great pictures!

But can't you see the crime there has risen to include covert bird bombings.
I bet you thought that was a real bird too

[Tom Nic]

I'm happy to report that neither DiverBob or myself were molested, robbed, knifed, shot, or yelled at by any gangsters while gearing up at Les this afternoon. I was however molested by a gull that I must have pissed off. While getting ready to don my kit my first stage was struck by a large amount of seagull droppings! Enough to cover my first stage tank valve and a good portion of my long hose.

Great report, and great visual! I think I would have handled the gangsters better than the seagull.

And now the $64 question - How was the viz?

[cardiver]

30 feet easy! Okay, more like 10 feet.
What do you make of the seal, Tom? Maybe a six gill had him for lunch?

[Tom Nic]

30 feet easy! Okay, more like 10 feet.
What do you make of the seal, Tom? Maybe a six gill had him for lunch?

Weird. And absolutely no idea.

[DiverBob]

Thanks Ron for a great dive! With the regular Thursday dive leader, Bassman , preparing for their trip north, I was wondering if I was going to get my nitrogen fix on Thursday. A PM was sent to cardiver on Wednesday, and less than 5 min. later he responds with "what time do we meet?" It's good to have great Dive buddies!

[BASSMAN]

Thanks Ron for a great dive! With the regular Thursday dive leader, Bassman , preparing for their trip north, I was wondering if I was going to get my nitrogen fix on Thursday. A PM was sent to cardiver on Wednesday, and less than 5 min. later he responds with "what time do we meet?" It's good to have great Dive buddies!

That's one thing about Cardiver. He is easy to plan a dive with!

And can do it with 1 to 5 word responses.

Like: "When?"
"great!"
"See you then!"