The Quarry For The Winter!

[Chantelle]

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 ~

Well, it seems a dog's age since I was in the water last... 3 weeks, and it was way too long!!! Steve and I headed up to Wakefield, Quebec today for a splash! When we got there, we expected it to be frozen solid ~ The air temperatures have been wayyyyyyyyyy sub zero over the last week or so, and everything else seems to be frozen. We pulled up, shovelled through to the entry point, and the usual spot was frozen over, up to the bridge, but past the bridge was all open water... w00t! We could just continue walking past the entry, to a second small beach to enter.



We met up with Carmen, Steve S., and Rob W. there as well.



As we made our way through the path to the entry point, and leave it to me to have my foot fall through a deep part of the snow, and fall down with my doubles on... pftt... I'm not proud..... I lifted my arse up, and carried on... We got in, made our plan, hovered at about 5 feet for a bit, then started our skills. Steve and I did our valve drills, air shares, and headed out to the plane.



We hovered around, did a few more skills, then headed out to the tug.



We swam through a couple of times, took some pics, and just had some good ol' fun!

Steve...



Me...



Steve S....



Carm...



We swam back to the plane, did some more skillssssss, then out we went.

Bottom Time ~ 54 mins.
Max. Depth ~ 43'
Water Temp. ~ 39
Vis. ~ 25' ish

Me, walking back to the van...



After getting out, we doffed our gear and went back to play...

Burying Steve...



Steve floating...



Me floating... (after Steve pushed me in... )...



Double self portrait...



Me... trying to catch a pic of Steve throwing water at me... didn't catch it obviously.. but I did get a nice chunk of water in the eyes...



...and... Steve practicing for some kind of obscure skating competition??



A great day, despite the rain! Thank goodness it was mild!

[acelockco]

Awesome dive report!

I am really excited about doing some diving on a nice snow day. Having a warm fire waiting for us when we surface. Our dive shack has a huge wood burining stove that really puts out some heat.

[lottie]

Thank goodness it was mild!

Mild!!! Those pictures look positively freezing!! what was the temp anyway??

Glad you had a good dive though...anything is better that nothing

[Chantelle]

Thanks!

Actually, there is a little room there, that you can start a fire in the wood stove when needed, as well as an outdoor firepit. We really didn't need it though, as the air temps were above zero. The weather network site said it was supposed to be 9 degrees, but it was probably about 5 - 6 where we were! (which is quite abnormal for this time of year)

We wanted to get out again today, but had to finish up the Christmas stuff first!!

Can't wait until next week!!!

[acelockco]

Yea' I feel ya'

I wanted to dive today as well, but we had to do the in-law thing.