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Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:45 pm
by Seaslave
Outstanding pictures everybody. I love the deep pictures you took John. I've been to Nootka twice now and dove both times, but I need to make a trip up when salmon fishing isn't foremost in my mind. Thanks for sharing the photos everyone.

Can anyone explain to me why we wouldn't have these corals here in the sound? Especially up in the San Juans where some of the topograghy is similiar to that of Nootka? If we did have it here, where would one look? I would love to find some here, even if there was less of it and smaller in size.


-Mathue

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:02 pm
by fpoole
FYI, they are also over at Kal & Ann's at the Skook.
Agamemnon Wall below 130'... Big ones...

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:40 pm
by Joshua Smith
Seaslave wrote:Outstanding pictures everybody. I love the deep pictures you took John. I've been to Nootka twice now and dove both times, but I need to make a trip up when salmon fishing isn't foremost in my mind. Thanks for sharing the photos everyone.

Can anyone explain to me why we wouldn't have these corals here in the sound? Especially up in the San Juans where some of the topograghy is similiar to that of Nootka? If we did have it here, where would one look? I would love to find some here, even if there was less of it and smaller in size.


-Mathue

I'm no Marine Biologist, but my guess is that the amazing amount of current and tidal exchange that Vancouver Island, and the rest of the Pacific Ocean, gets, has something to do with it. Puget Sound is kind of a dead end- we get all the currents, but it's a one-way in, one-way out kind of ecosystem. Canada has us beat, as far as diving goes.

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:37 pm
by Tangfish
Shoot, you guys with your awesome trip reports and stunning photos. I'm falling way behind! I gotta get off of my arse and get something together. Okay, soon. Very, very soon....

btw, John, have I ever told you how AWESOME it is to get a picture of oneself when you're the one usually taking photos of others?! I'm going to have to ask you for the high res versions of some of those shots you have of me. They're fantastic!

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:42 am
by John Rawlings
Tangfish wrote: btw, John, have I ever told you how AWESOME it is to get a picture of oneself when you're the one usually taking photos of others?! I'm going to have to ask you for the high res versions of some of those shots you have of me. They're fantastic!
Let's trade. :highfive:

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:07 am
by BDub
Wow John. Fantastic photos!

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:27 am
by Tangfish
Alright, I finally got my act together :smt024

Check out my trip report here.

Gallery of photos here. (has audio, mute if necessary)

:gunslinger:

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:35 am
by John Rawlings
Great stuff, Calvin!!!!

I want some of those shots!

"My depth gauge groans in protest"??????? Pretty darned dramatic, bud! #-o

- John

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:53 am
by Pez7378
WOW WOW WOW!!! That's what happens when you get four (4) great photogs in one great dive site! You guys KILLED IT!! Fantastic Pics....all of you! Calvin, your Macro stuff is the Shizzle!

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:56 am
by Tangfish
John Rawlings wrote:Great stuff, Calvin!!!!

I want some of those shots!

"My depth gauge groans in protest"??????? Pretty darned dramatic, bud! #-o

- John
It was, I swear. It was saying, "uuughh... it'd be so much easier to read me down here if I had an OLED display" :smt064

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:24 am
by Sockmonkey
Tangfish wrote:
It was, I swear. It was saying, "uuughh... it'd be so much easier to read me down here if I had an OLED display" :smt064
More accurately and succinctly: Image

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:34 am
by Tom Nic
John - Love the pics!

Calvin - Wow! Mr. silver-tongued orator! You did as good a job capturing the trip with your words as you did with your camera, and that's saying something.

:hello2:

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:29 am
by spatman
Tangfish wrote:Alright, I finally got my act together :smt024

Check out my trip report here.

Gallery of photos here. (has audio, mute if necessary)

:gunslinger:

duuuuuude! very nice! :highfive:

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:21 pm
by Sockmonkey
I finally got a chance to sit down and look everyone's reports and related photographs... and Jebus! Color me wicked jealous. I'm adding these series to my list of "Oh so you think that tropical diving is better?" photos.

Thanks so much for taking the time to write reports and post photos. It's easy to keep all that within your dive buddies circles. I totally appreciate the effort and time it took to get all that together. More of us should make the time to share our diving adventures... myself included.

Calvin.... you have a delightful flair for underwater melodrama. Totally fun read.

Why aren't there any embarrassing topside photos of anyone?

-Eric

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:32 pm
by Sounder
Sockmonkey wrote:Why aren't there any embarrassing topside photos of anyone?
"What happens in Nootka..."

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:48 pm
by John Rawlings
Sockmonkey wrote: Why aren't there any embarrassing topside photos of anyone?
Wait for it..... :angelblue:

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:30 pm
by Mattleycrue76
Wow guys, way to represent the PNW! All of your pics are amazing. I'm gonna put some on my Iphone to show people. I am in awe.

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:34 pm
by Tom Nic
Sounder wrote:
Sockmonkey wrote:Why aren't there any embarrassing topside photos of anyone?
"What happens in Nootka..."
You have NO idea.... :seesaw: :rofl: :yipes: :violent1: :computersmash:

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:37 pm
by H20doctor
Thank you for the great pics and the chance to see and explore your dive adventure... Glad to see and hear the trip was Fun ..

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:49 pm
by Tangfish
Tom Nic wrote:
Sounder wrote:
Sockmonkey wrote:Why aren't there any embarrassing topside photos of anyone?
"What happens in Nootka..."
You have NO idea.... :seesaw: :rofl: :yipes: :violent1: :computersmash:
You really don't, Eric, you really don't..... :evil4:

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:59 pm
by lizard0924
Wow. What amazing pictures. Thanks to you all for sharing them with us. Sounds like a fun trip to take.

Will have to add it to the diving destination list....so many trips, so little vacation time. :)

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:24 pm
by spatman
Sockmonkey wrote:Why aren't there any embarrassing topside photos of anyone?
shocker_lessons.jpg

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:29 pm
by Sockmonkey
What exactly is there to be embarrassed about here?

The question is... who is teaching who here? I'm pretty sure Calvin is getting fulled schooled.
spatman wrote:
Sockmonkey wrote:Why aren't there any embarrassing topside photos of anyone?
shocker_lessons.jpg

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:40 pm
by mz53480
spatman wrote:
Sockmonkey wrote:Why aren't there any embarrassing topside photos of anyone?
shocker_lessons
:laughing3: :rofl:

:popcorn:

Re: What a week in Nootka Sound!

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:51 pm
by Penopolypants
spatman wrote:
Sockmonkey wrote:Why aren't there any embarrassing topside photos of anyone?
shocker_lessons.jpg

:laughing3: :clap: :metal:

Awesome reports and photos! I'm soooooo envious!!