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Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 3:08 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 8:47 pm
by YellowEye
Awesome memoir. Nwdc represents!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 10:00 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 8:40 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2019 9:14 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 10:35 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2019 8:43 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2019 4:52 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 2:41 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 9:28 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 7:36 am
by Jan K
Monday July 8, Skyline, Fidalgo Island. The world above - beautiful, sunny day. Underwater, little different story.
Ten feet visibility and the slack was forty minutes or so late, so current was an issue...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 6:35 pm
by Sharkb8
Love the warbonnet almost all the way out of hiding! I had the same problem Sunday with the late slack in Anacortes, but it was still nice. Cool grunt sculpin also.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 8:34 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 11:08 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 2:11 pm
by Jan K
Returned from car trip to California, managed to squeeze in two days of diving at Anacapa Island, part of the Channel Islands National Park. Some strobe issues involving Olympus FL-LM3 flash, which sits on top of the camera inside the housing. It quit on me again, this was already second replacement, and in service only few weeks, so I though I was OK. Well, this little pice of equipment when it fails, makes the two larger and expensive strobes outside the housing useless. They don't fire neither. I did bring along another one, but it was waiting for me in a motel room on shore for the second day of diving. It quit at the end of second dive, not all was wasted, and on the third dive of the day I stayed shallow as to use ambient light. I did enjoy seeing critters I don't see on my Whidbey dives. But I was surprised that in spite of being protected area, there were few fish milling around. I remember seeing schools in the old days (film and younger age), and water felt very cold, us diving in rental wetsuits. The crew of the Specter were professional and helpful , although the dive briefing were good, on promises of marine life waiting for us overly optimistic. Never saw the huge schools of fish circling around, the 50lbs lobsters crawling in the open, or the Giant sea bass. Visibility also varied, not great during our two days there. The marine layer hanging over us until the end of third dive did no help. But it was nice to change the underwater scenery, if only for couple days. Maya was, as always, great dive buddy.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2019 9:28 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2019 3:59 pm
by oldsalt
Conditions may have been sub-optimal, but you still find interesting things to photograph. Treasure your dives with Maya. I miss diving with my sons.
-Curt
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 7:54 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 9:26 am
by Penopolypants
Those blue banded gobies are so pretty!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 6:10 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 7:51 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2019 6:46 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2019 9:11 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 7:31 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2019 8:04 am
by Jan K