Glad you got your word in Rich and get to have more to say!Dusty2 wrote:A couple of months ago a guy in a large yacht ran into the jetty At Hudson point and did some pretty bad damage. (to the jetty, we don't care about his junior ocean liner!) The crux of which is they are going to have to place the which amounts to pretty much tearing out the old jetty and building a retaining way per the new DNR regs which don't don't give a cr@$p about the marine life. I got wind of a commissioners meeting last Monday where they were supposed to get info from the engineering firm that they hired as to what the new design will look like so I high tailed up to attend the meeting. As it works out the engineers report was not complete so it was rescheduled for the 22nd. However I did get up before the commissioners and told them how valuable and diverse that Ecosystem is at Hudson and what they will destroy if they rip everything out and put in some concrete and steel wall that will never generate any life to replace the damages they will do. They were quite impressed with my point and want me to come back on the 22nd and give a presentation to the engineers and the DNR reps. They said that I had some very powerful points that they had heard nothing of before now. So guess where we are going to be on the 22nd.?? Emoji
Karen Mills came up from Port orchard and was helpful in presenting or case. She was the one who alerted me to this and I thank her dearly for catching this before it's past history.
It would be really nice to see some more interested parties show up to let them know the ecological damage they will be doing if they just throw some money at this without considering the thousands of critters who live in that jetty. Greg? Janna? some of the clubs that dive there regularly? Hudson needs our help!
"This site still has my personal record for most species identified on a single cold water dive"Tom Nic wrote:Showing pictures of the life that is currently there would be huge, IMO.
You should be OK as long as the south wind isn't blowing and you play it safe. My advice is to keep an eye on the current at the end of the jetty and when you see the current begin to pickup head back toward the entry once you get past the dogleg in the jetty things will drop off a lot. The further you go west the less intense the current will be. From the dolphin west It is very much like Redondo you'll feel right at home . Eel grass in the shallows then a steep drop off at about 15 to 20' down to about 80 to 90 feet with a lot of bottom litter to explore. Lots of little reds and sculpins and such out in that flat with the occasional GPO tucked into the logs down there. Totally different from the jetty but a less current intensive experience. If you can find them there are a couple of large salmon anemones out in those flats between the dolphin and the new pier and they sometimes have candy stripe shrimp on them.Grateful Diver wrote:Thanks Dusty ... you know that site way better than I do. Perhaps I'll call Don over at Octopus Gardens and get his input. I'll be hosting an out of town guest ... also an experienced diver.
... Bob (Grateful DIver)
