Posts Tagged ‘Crab’
1.17.09 – Blue Heron Bridge
Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Hello everyone.
Saturday, January 17th finds the Video Dude doing a solo dive at Blue Heron Bridge. Scuba Goddess Terri has a head cold today, so I am off to brave the chilly air temps and 70 degree water at Blue Heron. Once I arrive and get geared up, I carry my dive flag, camera and fins to the water’s edge and finish getting ready to get in. Once I am underwater, I drift with what little current is left just before slack tide, and see that visibility will only be about 10ft today. Well that’s OK because I now get to practice my “muck diving” skills and look for the little stuff that sometimes gets missed.
Several Starfish are about, along with hundreds of Sea Urchins – one had a small Crab skeleton attached as camouflage! There was also a small Flounder trying to hide from my camera, a Red Batfish, a couple of Lobster, lots of very large Arrow Crabs, and an Octopus that had made a “garden” from empty bottles. He actually tried to hang onto his “favorite” bottle while I was shooting video. It was kinda funny.
Click to play the video:
It was a great day of diving and I was glad I could shoot video so my sick dive buddy (and others) could see it. It was a little eerie not having a dive buddy nearby, but I am glad I had the experience.
More fun diving in Paradise,
The Video Dude
Tags: Arrow Crabs, Blue Heron Bridge, camera, Crab, current, Flounder, Lobster, muck diving, octopus, octopus garden, Red Batfish, Scuba Goddess Terri, Sea Urchins, slack tide, Starfish, Video Dude
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