Even More Porteau Cove 26/07/2015

With the constant E Coli warnings in the Whytecliff area, Poreau was the next best area. Heather and I had a good two dives. Evan Soukas and Josh Gardner also showed up. It was Evan's first cold water dive after coming back from the Red Sea. There was a ton of divers out, the parking lot was full, and there were several groups out at any one time. Very busy!

On our first dive, we followed the firehose and had a good time looking around the jungle gym. Heather found an octopus in a small crack. There were huge schools of perch, and the usual giant ling cod. On the swim out, we came across a very unique fish, Ptilichthys goodei, or the Quillfish. This image is not mine, but came from here. The folks at Sea to Sky Scuba helped us identify it. It was very snake-like, and the one we found was orangey yellow, and about a foot long. Very cool!

I got some video. The first clip is the octopus in the crack, and the rest is of the schools of perch.

On our surface interval, we had some small bird visitors. Two small brown birds were very used to people, and almost ate food out of our hands. They were very cute. The granola bar we shared with them was a bit sticky, and the poor birds had a bit of a hard time with it!

Heather got a bit of video too.

On the second dive, we decided to go under the dock. Unfortunately the visibility there was not that good. Most of the dive was brown rock. But we did see some big schools of perch, as well as a very large moon jellyfish. Also, we found a Cresi mask, and reunited it with its owner in the parking lot. Good karma!