Madd Picnic

Well things went great. We got to meet a lot new friends and renew acqaintence with some old friends. Corrine , Davey, and I got in three dives. One nice deco dive to 118'. Then we had some hamburgers and hotdogs, and some great desserts! It was a little cooler than I thought it would be, around 71 degrees with a little breeze. But water temps were in the 80s. A really great day!!

Another great day of diving!

We met Blue Marble and a few other friends at Millbrook Sunday for a day of diving, and a picnic. We did 3 dives, saw a lot of the attractions, even though the vis was terrible. Then a picnic with friends, it doesn't get better. Unless it was in Cozemel!!

Great Diving weekend!

We had a great weekend of diving, 6 dives on Saturday, 2 on Sunday. Did some night diving, and met some new friends. We had a great barbecue, and my wife made a German chocolate cake for my birthday. A great way to celebrate my birthday. Diving with friends!!

Diving last Sunday

Had a great day diving, only a few people there. The vis was 20', and the weather was cool. So it was great in the water and out!! A lot of people missed a great day of diving.

Anniversary diving at Jocassee!!

It's our 5th wedding anniversary, so we decided to go diving at Lake Jocassee. Then spend some time in Asheville NC., and come back as far as we could on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Well, the diving went great. We dove with Off the Wall Charters in salem SC., a great group of people. On saturday we went to a location known as the wall. We anchored at the wall in 65' of water, near the junk, a 65' wooden sailing junk. The plan was for Corrine and I to head to the junk, then she would hang there while I continued on down the wall to about 200'. Another diver, aned at that point, and lso named Joe, showed me the deep line, and joined me down to 150'. He turned at that point and I continued on to 200'. There was a nice propane grill at 175'. I spent 10 minutes at 200', then returned to the junk at 65' and joined Corrine for the rest of the dive. Of course there were a few deco stops along the way. Our 2nd dive we checked the things on the ledge. We camped at Devils Fork state park Friday and Saturday night, a very nice park, we reserved the last available spot for this weekend!! On sunday we did two dives on the graveyard, 137', and 152'. This is the graveyard that was in the last scene of the movie deliverance. It was a nice dive, vis around 15'. The skipper took the boat out on sunday, even though it was only Corrine and I!! The rest of our vavation we played tourist in Brevard, asheville, and travelled back on the blue ridge parkway. We spent our last night in a motel in Linville. We hiked to Linville falls, saw Grandfather mountain, and went to Mast general store, a neat old time general store. A great vacationand anniversary!!

Still Diving!!

Well I've been doing a lot of diving, 96 dives so far since the 1st of te year. I've been putting my season pass at Millbrook to use. I've been there almost every weekend. I've met a lot of new divers, I joined BMD dive group{ meetup.com} { BMD dive group} great place if you are looking to dive locally weekends. And I met some new divers on scuba board, we've been out a few times to Millbrook. Corrine and I, and Paul, Kim and their son Chris spent memorial day at Lake Rawlings. We had a great weekend, lot's of diving and great company. This weekend I was back at rawlings with Dori, and a large group from Blue Marble{about 30 people}, a lot of diving, and met some people. I guided a couple of newly certified divers who moved here from Poland. Next weekend Corrine and I are going to south carolina, for our anniversary, a couple days of diving at Lake Jocassee. Then a couple days playing tourist in Asheville.

Diving, and more diving!

I haven't blogged in a few weeks, and I've done a good bit of diving. 2 weekends ago I went to Lake Rawlings with The crew. I went down to take a wreck diving course, and did 6 dives on saturday, and 3 dives on sunday. I had a great weekend, and learned a lot. The next weekend Corrine and I went to Mt. Storm on easter sunday, it was a little cool on the surface, and the same 55 degrees in the water. We took the dutch oven and I cooked a hunters breakfast, then fixed fried bologna sandwiches for lunch. We did 2 dives, the 1st to 117', and the 2nd to 30'. We had a good day, and had a lot of fun. Today I went to Guppy Gulch to dive with the crew again, it was a warm day, but water temps at 40' were 38 degrees, cold!!!! After the dive we stopped in Delta Plane for pizza. Great pizza!