Double Dip



 There has been a series of storms over the last month, but fortunately, there are weather opportunity windows, that obsessed divers must take advantage of. With a small break in the wind on Saturday morning the weather was looking ok, in spite of a new wind storm headed our way for the afternoon. Water was pretty flat, no whitecaps, nor much of a swell. The surface water was fairly greenish blue, considering all the storms and spring tides we have been experiencing recently. And it was just a nice sunny morning for a quick one tank dip in the pool.
  Under water was a stark contrast to the conditions top side. Poor vis, about 2mtrs max. (Ok... 2mtrs was an over statement it was more like 10cm) and with me causing the occasional silt out dragging my scallop bag it brought it down to thick farmhouse vegetable soup. Jen declined my offer when I got home to scrape the plankton and krill from my dive gear to make a nice tasty soup for lunch. By the time I had washed my kit  I was pleasantly surprised to see the trees shaking as the day progressed. Managed to make it to Vazon  

early afternoon.  The wind over the last 24hrs has been really weird. From the South, then the West in the afternoon and blowing its tits off over night, then back to South Sunday morning.....  Just couldn't resist a few runs on the pond with a SSW. Only about 20 knots of wind. It was nice to do a double dip and get wet again. Swell was tiny but seemed to pick up mid session a wee bit. Wind was kinda weird and gusty. It would swing from SW at one end of the beach to W at the other, people were pointing all over the place. It was too onshore for any real attempts at getting rides. Lots of short period swell, which made for some good jumping going out. Rain clouds on the horizon soon moved in and the rain came in a series of massive squalls and saturated the place increasing the wind and turning it Westerly sailed around over powered for about 25 minutes. Got a couple of good jumps and some loops. Then it just started to get silly which killed the session. And that was it.