Alki: 57 degrees with wolf eels galore

anndornfeld · Post by **anndornfeld** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 11:23 am

I'm heading to Alki immediately to enjoy 57-degree water and see all of those wolf eels I've been missing on my weekly dives.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/p ... 187/1.html

Grateful Diver · Post by **Grateful Diver** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 12:44 pm

Well, there used to be a wolf eel at Cove 2 down in the rocks by the I-beams. We named her Wendy after she tried eating my dive buddy's finger ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

ljjames · Post by **ljjames** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 3:48 pm

She was pretty darned cute... (if we are talking' the same one...) there was Grunty there in a small piece of pipe just below her den right about the same time frame if i remember correctly... a nice two fer when friends came to town

Grateful Diver wrote:Well, there used to be a wolf eel at Cove 2 down in the rocks by the I-beams. We named her Wendy after she tried eating my dive buddy's finger ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Norris · Post by **Norris** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 4:13 pm

anndornfeld wrote:I'm heading to Alki immediately to enjoy 57-degree water and see all of those wolf eels I've been missing on my weekly dives.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/p ... 187/1.html

I got your sarcasm anndornfeld....sometimes you need the <sarcasm> </sarcasm> tags...

Geek · Post by **Geek** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 6:20 pm

I don't use them and EVERYONE knows I'm being sarcastic

Dusty2 · Post by **Dusty2** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 7:25 pm

Hey it's a reporter! You expect accuracy??

renoun · Post by **renoun** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 10:55 pm

Dusty2 wrote:Hey it's a reporter! You expect accuracy??

Oh, come on isn't it obvious that it is all Wayne's fault.

coulterboy · Post by **coulterboy** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 12:01 am

I'm staying out of this. Blame the reporter. I don't even know why he cropped the damn picture. Don't know where he got the temperature reading, but he was close though. It was 54 degrees to be exact.

Well, at least he got the darn names right.

anndornfeld · Post by **anndornfeld** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 5:31 pm

Hey, I'm a reporter!

An old-fashioned "fact-checking" reporter.

Or at least I attribute so the public knows who to blame...

This isn't nearly as bad as the NY Times story I read in the '90s wherein the reporter described Bill Gates' new Medina home as "a 12-minute kayak trip across Lake Washington from Seattle."

Correction: I just wondered if I was recalling that accurately, and checked my facts. Here is what it actually said:

"a 10-minute canoe ride across Lake Washington from Seattle."

I'm kinda blown away by the near-accuracy of my memory (a rarity), but still not as blown away as I would be to watch someone row across the lake in 10 minutes. Maybe they meant a hydroplanecanoe?

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/12/garde ... noe&st=cse

-Ann

coulterboy · Post by **coulterboy** » Sun Sep 04, 2011 12:22 pm

anndornfeld wrote:Hey, I'm a reporter!

SO WHAT!

nwscubamom · Post by **nwscubamom** » Sun Sep 04, 2011 3:26 pm

At Sund Rock yesterday, in the shallows, it seriously was 60 degrees!! Bathwater temps...so maybe that reporter isn't THAT far off...

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