dove at Whitney Point on the Hood Canal, in Northwest Washington

state, and had beautiful

weather, super good viz, water flat as glass and the whole

place to ourselves! This is a great site for all experience levels. A

nice parking area where you can get out of your car, suit up and just

walk right into the water. There is a nice restroom building right

there too.

We did two really nice dives. On the left side of the launching ramp,

there are two abandoned pipe lines which run out from shore

underwater. These are just loaded with all kinds of life. The short

pipe runs out aways and ends in about 30-40 feet of water. You turn

right and swim a little ways and you come upon a bunch of concrete

blocks and pipes, milk crates, etc., that some nice people put up to

make an

artificial reef. There were a lot of critters hanging around this.

You follow the other pipe on out a long ways. We found the end of it

finally down at 95 feet. Every so often there are supports which hold

the pipe. The interesting things are tucked under these. We saw

several giant Pacific octopi each sleeping under their own support.

All tucked into a very small place taking a nap. We got right down on

the bottom on our bellies, shined our lights into the little hole,

and all curled up in there were lots of tenacles, and a big eye

looking at us. Besides these guys, we saw lots of fish, crabs, but

didn't see any wolf eels. The viz all of this time was a good 30

feet! Absolutely wonderful dives. In fact, we got to swim right IN

and ALONG with a

big school of these dark blue fish about 8 to 12 inches long. We just

swam right into the school and they were all around us moving right

along. It reminded me of a school of fish on a field trip!

Our first dive was to a max depth of 95 feet, for 59 minutes. Between

dives, there were some students and instructors who showed up for a

class. All the way from Roseburg Oregon, if you can believe it. When

they left, We did our second dive over on the right side of

the launching ramp. There were two small plastic pipes which ran out

under water. We followed them out and saw lots of eel grass, smaller

fish, and even another octopus or two. That dive was to a max of 75

feet for about 45 minutes. The water temp. was about 50 degrees the

whole time.

All in all, some really nice diving!