Day one from Quadra Island

First of all if you were on the fence about coming up here, you missed out on some amazing weather and world class diving. We got up at 6 AM some of us had a bowl of Cheerios before the dive. Our first dive was Copper cliffs. This was a true wall dive as the cliffs go both above and below the water. The cliffs have natural copper deposites in them so they have a blueish green tone to them. The visablity on this dive was about 70 feet. There was a very lite current that pushed us along the wall. We saw lots of different sponges and pulumose anomes. Tere was also some nice over hangs to explore. Josh and Joe had a close encounter with a harbor seal. We were back by 9:30 with a warm breakfast waiting YUM -Scott

The Gully was our second dive, and even more amazing than the first. We headed out at about 11:30, and since I had stepped on and broken my sunglasses at the dock, the sun came out to brighten everything up. Visibility was amazing and with the extra sunshine, no light cannons were necessary. The Gully had a rubbley bottom of about 40-50 feet and was absolutly covered in life. I had "strawberry fields for ever..." playing on repeat in my mind. There were strawberry anenomies everywhere! So much life to see. It felt very peaceful. Scott found a gigantic Puget Sound King Crab that everyone loved. There was a nice 0.5 knot current that breezed us along. The gully turned into a wall as we drifted south and that great feeling of flight came back as we gradually came up for our safety stop. The boat picked us up and we were back at the lodge eating lunch 20 minutes later. Awesome! -Josh