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Friday, December 30, 2011

Fairview Bay. further north on one long wall

Hmm. yeah we've been here before a few times in the last while. Well every time we go we move a bit further along and do one known good dive and and explore dive. It is a bit odd but we have not had a dud since we started exploring this wall.I believe there is at least one more dive here.
Today along with the tremendous structure we saw an Octopus and sea lion at about the same time.
The sea lion made a couple passes through our group and was gone while the octo just took the tome we were distracted and retreated further into his crack.
It was great to meet Kevin and Deb and also to get Verjall out with us for the first time












Wednesday, December 28, 2011

more exploring

Andy ,Bruce and I went back to Fairview north to do another test dive and came up with another good one.
It was warmer on deck but raining and cloudy.
Water temp same at 48F and clear with 85+ feet of vis.

We will be going back here some more as it is a new place and has great structure with a fair amount of life
Great day guy's!








Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Fairview Bay North

I was out yesterday with Andy and Wayne for a day that saw us doing sometest dives as the weather blew up keeping us away from our intended dive site of Northeast Point.
WOW. Our second dive was one of the best  topographic structure dives I have seen fort a long time.

















Here are a few photos of the 2 dives . The water is still cool on the longer dives but real clear.