I put the call out to see if anyone wanted to join us today,
and no takers…One is just getting back from somewhere warm, another is still
somewhere warm, so no one in our little group wanted to join us… In fact NO ONE
wanted to join Rob and me, we were the only ones that were at the quarry
today! I was the first on the sign in
sheet, Rob was second, and no one was there when we were finished… I guess everyone
is out finishing up their Christmas shopping!
(heck, I haven’t even started!)
Today is the last day of Fall, so why not celebrate it by
doing a dive! After last week’s adventure, I mentioned to Rob that this weekend
was probably free, so we decided to keep it open. A few personal things happened, but the
logistics worked out that I was able to get back into town, and get one
in. Rob suggested putting a notice up
that we were going, but no one bit, so it was just us. Since the visibility was
pretty decent in spots last week, Rob decided to bring along his GoPro and do
some filming. We had no plan in order so
it was just a follow the leader sort of thing, and since I navigate as well as
I ballet dance, Rob did the leading.
We dropped in from the steep access, which is getting shallower
by the minute, and met at the 20ft. tree to see if anything weird was
leaking. All bubbles were intentional,
so we kept going. First past the boat where the Fuzzy Caterpillar used to hang
out (didn’t see where he ended up) and through the trees past the Pennsy and
the Dolphin Tower over to the pipeline.
We took a slight left at the pipeline, and headed towards the CAT. Since the visibility is pretty darn decent, I
was able to see that just to the right of the CAT there’s a deep drop off, and
it’s not just a foggy area. I don’t recall if I knew that, I’ll have to root
through some old reports from this time of the year, but it looked pretty cool
from my vantage point. We looked at eash
other at the CAT, and kept going towards the Deep Boat. At the Deep Boat, Rob pointed towards the
back wall, and I agreed, so we swam towards that past some of the usual
landmarks (The board, a few trees). At the wall we started left, and followed
that over the 110ft. trench, past the
Pump House and over the rocks. The visibility
was pretty foggy, so we think we missed the Tripod Tree and the Outhouse, so
Rob pointed back in. Back over the
rocks, and along the bottom of the wall, we must have swam below the Pump
House, so Rob started up the hill next to the telephone pole. It’s ironic that I saw the deep part to the
right of the CAT earlier because that’s where we ended up at the top of our
ascent, right next to the CAT. Rob turned left again, and we were soon at the
Aqua Adventures Truck. Rob decided to
swim through it (to film, I’m guessing) I opted to meet him at the back
end. When he got through, he looked at
me and gave me the signal to go over the wall, (I knew he wanted to film over
there) so I agreed, and we headed over to the wall to do a quick safety stop. After the safety stop, we swam over the road,
which is a lot shallower due to the decreased depth of the entire quarry, and
popped into the Lagoon (where an ice cream headache was re-established) We swam over the building debris, and past a
boat over to where the pipeline is located.
Rob swam through first, and I followed, noticing the pile of shells on
the bottom of it. Out of the pipe and
around past the boat, we headed to the wall.
At the road again, we popped back over into the bowl. Just as I was
attempting to descend, and started descending, I got a cramp in my leg and had
to dump air from my suit since I just put a little bit in and surfaced. Cramp gone, and back to 15ft. we swam along
the road to our exit point, and we were done!
Duration: 44 minutes
Deepest Depth: 91ft.
Coldest Temp: 37º (still warmer than the air!)
A nice dive to end Fall!
Barring the cramp at the end, and my foot giving me a little cramping
issue early in the dive, I think it was a pretty darn good dive to (possibly)
end the year! (27th & 28th
are still in play for 2014) This week’s
air temperatures were a little colder than last weekend, but there was no wind
this week, so it felt better. (I also brought a hand warmer, and activated it
before we got in the water, so it was working when we got out…THAT helped a
lot!) It was still hard to believe that
no one else showed up while we were in the water, I can’t honestly remember a
time when we were the only two people there for the whole duration.
We packed our gear and headed to PizzAtown for a quick
lunch. Probably getting a fill Monday
night, and discussing if we’re going to try to sneak one in after the Christmas
Holiday, and then work on the New Years Day adventure! Tough to believe that it’s that part of the
year again, it didn’t seem like a long time ago when we were doing the New
Years Day dive in 2014!
Hope to see you all again, soon! Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas! I hope you and your families have a great
holiday! See you next time!
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