Friday August 20th dive

Pete, Laurent and I "stole" the boat today and went to Kettle Island. I wanted to catch lobsters, Pete too. Laurent wanted to film.



We had a great time. We anchored on the seaward facing side of the island, a place we normally do not go to because of the wind and waves.



Beautiful place underwater. I used the down line and went forward of the boat. Found a nice crack in the rock and followed it; ran into Pete, who was ahead of me. I caught my first lobster there. Followed that crack until it stopped then went across a short plain towards some boulders. The plain was covered in a short green growth with area's of brown moss. The boulders had some neat seaweed growing from them. I was being followed by a group of perch about 6 of them.



Found another lobster, this one huge, it came out easy so I think someone was there before me. The lobster had eggs so I put it back in its hole. I found lots of lobsters but they were either too short or had eggs.



My air gauge was broken so I couldn't tell how much air I had left but I knew I was going low because I was getting light. Had to find a deeper place since I was going low. I know that sounds crazy but I wasn't even close to running out of air. I still had about a half hour left.



As I was going around I found a notch and swam down it. As I followed it I found 2 lobsters. They were both a good size so I was happy. I caught 3 of them on one dive. I usually catch 1 per dive. There was another one, even bigger, but I couldn't get it because one of the other lobsters I caught was holding onto the side of the bag and I couldn't close it. If I went after that last lobster then I risked losing the entire bag.



Went to Ted's place afterwards to get a new air pressure gauge. Stole lots of tomatoes from Ted's place. They were great!



Dives 22

Lobster 13