Video Dude Productions

1.17.09 - Blue Heron Bridge

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.

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After about an hour and a half bottom time, I started to get chilly and started making my way back to the beach to get out and head back to my car. There were a few scuba classes going on and I chatted with a few people about shooting video, then dropped my gear at my car, changed clothes and headed home.

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