pnwdivingVisibility: 20 feet, 15-20 feet in the shallows (high tide)
2 great dives again at the Teo. 1st dive was dive 900 for me!!! Thank you to all friends at Anacortes Scuba Thermocline was cold and mixed shallow viz but the rest, oh my. It was a day of the usual suspects. Many octo....oh so many out and about. As many as three at a time at deep line. Wolf eel. Nudis, a very decorated warbonnet on the dome...rockfish, one was looking at an octo mighty hard. May or may not have been swished away:) The big fun was the new stuff. at least 9 bay pipe fish, green and brown. Swam past mini dome to the big logs and under log 2 a Plainfin Midshipman:) Other divers saw a dogfish and others had a fun visit with a big stellar. Such a great day.
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Visibility: A hazy 15 feet, 5 feet in the shallows (high tide)
A nice dive with decent visibilty at 10-15 feet. Better viz at depth than in the shallows. A surface halocline was noticeably colder and probably the reason for blurry viz in the shallows. Noticable east-to-west current at the surface and at depth, but it was manageable. Lots of copper rockfish, several painted greenlings, a brave red octopus out and about, silver ratfish, a beautiful painted anemone and a moon snail were all easy to spot around the geodome, pipe stack, block house and pier.
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