Monday, January 24, 2011

Tuwanek 15/01/2011

Back to Tuwanek on the Sunshine Coast! Always good for a great dive.

Anita and I were out this time, and I was getting some practice in on her camera. I was going to borrow it for the next day of diving with the UASBC.

Unlike previous Tuwanek trips, we took the later ferry so didn't have to get up so early. It made a big difference not having to get up at 4:30am! The ferry ride was uneventful, and we spent most of it going over the camera functions.

When we arrived at Tuwanek, it wasn't raining. The weather was certainly threatening though. No one else was there diving, which was great so we had the place to ourselves.

We planned on one long dive around the north island, and it was. Our average depth worked out pretty much as we planned, 45 feet. The dive time also worked out to be in-plan, but just. It was an hour and 28 minutes. This was the longest dive I had ever done to date.

We saw the wolf eel, and carried on around the back side of the island. There was a large section of the back side that was pretty barren. Smooth granite rock mostly, but not a lot of life. When we turned into the channel between the two islands it got interesting again. On the north-east side of the island, there were several pipes coming down from the rock above. There was a cabin up there, so we figured they were for some kind of water system. We ended up not coming down south far enough, and surfaced near the house just north of the creek. All in all though, pretty good navigation.

Here is a video of the wolf eel I took. It's the same as all the other Tuwanek wolf eel videos!



And here is a video of some swimming striped sea perch.



And here are some moon jellies.



After all this, we had a nice lunch and then went to the Halfmoon Bay General Store and bought some of their special bacon!

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