Re: Something dive related! A trip report

"Bryan Heit" <bjheit@NOSPAMucalgary.ca> wrote in message
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> Overall a good trip. Hopefully a few more dives will get our newbies
> into condition to do some harder stuff - I'd love to head back and do
> some of the more challenging dives the area has - Texada island, the
> scoochumchuck narrows (spelling is wrong), and the Chaudere would have
> been nice to hit this trip.

OK, I am jealous.

Another place I want to get up to is the Curme Islands. I spent a summer up
there camping when I was about 15 and it was amazing.

When you do Texada and all, do yourself a favor and skip the Chaud, spend
the dive elsewhere, it really isn't much of anything but anemone and
tunicates, plus it is on its side. Get with Bryce Christie, he has so many
better sites to dive in the area. 89 degree wall is one, and if you get the
chance to dive the Skookumchuck narrows, the dive off the Topline is world
class.

"Bryan Heit" <bjheit@NOSPAMucalgary.ca> wrote in message
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> Good advice; I hope to be able to use it one day. Unfortunately (from a
> diving perspective) in a few months I'm moving east, so trips to the
> west coast aren't going to be hop-in-the-car type events anymore.

That really sucks.

Do whatever you have to and dive with Bryce before you move.

Get the flu or the clap or somehting...

> The real kicker is that the narrows were actually cooperating this trip
> - about a 2 hour window of "no current" for 3 days. Unfortunately,
> having newbies meant it was still not quite on the menu, even in its
> less-then-crazy state.