Last Wednesday Night Dive of the Season

Look at all those dive flags! If it's one thing that noticed, the local divers like to dive almost as much as they also like to eat! Tonight's dive was the end of the season cookout, as you can see the turn out was good. Diving and eating, that can hardly be beat, add the socializing and the stories and it really becomes a fun night.

Tonight, we tried something new. I hooked my GPS to my dive flag as we went on our dive. Becca was convinced I only swim in circles, so I felt it necessary to prove to her that I really do have a general idea what I'm doing. I wasn't sure how this would turn out, but I think it looks good. We did do some looping, but that was because we followed were the railroad tracks when we were down.

Here's our Path:


Anytime we find an object underwater, that's a major accomplishment for us. One of these days, we'll try to raise those expectations some, but for right now, finding something equals a high five. The railroad tracks proved the easiest object to find tonight. We also found what was left of a car, it looked like a Model T or what was left of Model T. I think I could have fit it in the glove box of my car! The highlight of the dive for me were the fish. We saw a number of schools and it was funny to approach a barrel only to have a fish come shooting out. My favorite moment was thinking that I found something shiny on the bottom only to find a good sized pike laying in the weeds. We startled it before we could get a picture of it, but I thought it was an awesome discovery! It did remind me of the barracuda we saw in Maui.

Here's a fish smaller hanging out:


The food was great after our dive. Nothing better then surfacing and smelling BBQ! The evening ended with watching some video from our deep water dive in Gilboa. Luckily, Becca and I didn't get captured often because the videotographer was in the other group, which was a good thing because our form still needs work. But the video provided a number of laughs.

Haven't made our minds up yet which dive we are going to do this weekend, but I know we'll be getting wet again. Last dive of the season with the local people, but it won't be the last dive of the season for us!