Titlow With Tom Nic
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2018 6:13 pm
Over the last few months Tom has been throwing messages to me about diving during the week , when everyone else is at work ..LoL and so he and i threw back and forth where to go and where to dive ...? one of the planned sites was for him to come up north and see some of the north stuff , but with a Strong south wind brewing up for thursday , my N end stuff was a no go ... So I volunteered to suffer in traffic and drive down to Titlow ...
Thursdays predicted slack was at 1:15 ... the mission , to make it out without being slammed by current.... I made it to the lot shortly after 11 am . to see a Guy with a beard wearing a N W dive club shirt , and driving a 4 door blue car ... Yeah , it was Sir tom Nic.. Master of the 80 min dive and King of critter spotting ... With a nice beard growing and a firm Handshake , we caught up on life and How we have been ..
there was a Pumpkin massacre a few days a go and the Natives had displayed them to ward Off scuba Divers from their waters
i was a Bit Leary about being here after seeing these poor pumpkins, But i knew Tom nic would protect me from the tacoma savages by simply using his Black belt martial arts skills .... if that failed he would use his Dan Dive mat as a weapon and beat them to submission...
ANYWAY ... geared up at 1245 and we get into the water ... there is current and its pushing north .. Now its not too strong of current that we cant stay in ... But its enough current to make ya think ... Hmmmmmmmm are we gonna get out to the Pilings ? well I was gonna kick with my feet and give it my all to dam well make it out to those suckers because I sat in traffic for 1.5 hours , and kicking in current was waaaaaayyyyyyy Better than being stuck in traffic .... over the sand and rock ... kicking head into the current ... we made IT !!! and once behind the Pilings we were able to relax and get our gear situated , cameras On , and settings ready for the dive ....
The Viz .... not bad id say 25 to 30 feet ... the white Plumose anems were open and out , the barnacles Have fallen off of the Plings and towards the east end they are all over the bottom of the sand ....Sad stuff ... I was shooting Macro so i was Looking for small stuff to shoot ... first up ... this dude I then thought I saw a Dotto Nudi ... but it was soooooooo freeking small that i didnt have the Ability to focus on it ... Here it is .. Some Pink mouth Hydroids ... with an Alien flea .... where is MY 105MM Lens ? Ohhhh thats right still at the store cause its Too darn expensive !!! We did Achieve slack and Have flat dead calm water .... But it didnt Show up till 215 230 pm ... once that Happnd Tom and I explored the whole place top to bottom .... After The dive we went to Steamers and Got lunch.. And talked About the next Adventures for scuba ..
Thursdays predicted slack was at 1:15 ... the mission , to make it out without being slammed by current.... I made it to the lot shortly after 11 am . to see a Guy with a beard wearing a N W dive club shirt , and driving a 4 door blue car ... Yeah , it was Sir tom Nic.. Master of the 80 min dive and King of critter spotting ... With a nice beard growing and a firm Handshake , we caught up on life and How we have been ..
there was a Pumpkin massacre a few days a go and the Natives had displayed them to ward Off scuba Divers from their waters
i was a Bit Leary about being here after seeing these poor pumpkins, But i knew Tom nic would protect me from the tacoma savages by simply using his Black belt martial arts skills .... if that failed he would use his Dan Dive mat as a weapon and beat them to submission...
ANYWAY ... geared up at 1245 and we get into the water ... there is current and its pushing north .. Now its not too strong of current that we cant stay in ... But its enough current to make ya think ... Hmmmmmmmm are we gonna get out to the Pilings ? well I was gonna kick with my feet and give it my all to dam well make it out to those suckers because I sat in traffic for 1.5 hours , and kicking in current was waaaaaayyyyyyy Better than being stuck in traffic .... over the sand and rock ... kicking head into the current ... we made IT !!! and once behind the Pilings we were able to relax and get our gear situated , cameras On , and settings ready for the dive ....
The Viz .... not bad id say 25 to 30 feet ... the white Plumose anems were open and out , the barnacles Have fallen off of the Plings and towards the east end they are all over the bottom of the sand ....Sad stuff ... I was shooting Macro so i was Looking for small stuff to shoot ... first up ... this dude I then thought I saw a Dotto Nudi ... but it was soooooooo freeking small that i didnt have the Ability to focus on it ... Here it is .. Some Pink mouth Hydroids ... with an Alien flea .... where is MY 105MM Lens ? Ohhhh thats right still at the store cause its Too darn expensive !!! We did Achieve slack and Have flat dead calm water .... But it didnt Show up till 215 230 pm ... once that Happnd Tom and I explored the whole place top to bottom .... After The dive we went to Steamers and Got lunch.. And talked About the next Adventures for scuba ..