New Year's Day 2005

[Jon]

Well it's a couple of weeks old, but I just got my photo status updated so that I can post again.

Here's a few shots from my New Year's day dive. There were originally going to be a bunch of divers, both free and scuba, who were going to join me, but the all wussed out at the last minute. Since I was going solo I only dove for an hour, but still got to see a lot of fish, and birds, during that time.

Since the warm water outlet is open all winter, it attracts quite a bit of wild life. I guess that there would have to be close to 500 birds around there, plus all of the musky, carp, crappie, buffolo, blugills, and other fish swimming by in the water. There was even a bald eagle flying circles above me, before he dove in and snagged a muskrat, but I was so enthraled witht he fish that I never even noticed him.

Jon

[Jon]

I had also tried to get out on Lake Michigan the day after Christmas, but the waves turned out to be a little bit too rough. My father-in-law had a charter planned for the next day out to one of the shipwrecks, but we had to cancel because of the weather.

The ice only covered the harbour, but once you broke through the rest of the lake was wide open- and bouncy!

Here's a shot of the shoreline from about a mile out.

Jon

[Adrian]

Nice shots Jon, makes me shiver!
Did you take the surface shots of the birds after or before wetting the camera? Whenever I take surface shots while diving I get these large drops of water that mess up the picture. If I try to wipe them with my hand I just spread them around more.

Adrian

[Jon]

After,

But I did take off the dome port and waited a bit before I took the shots- plus I deleted all of the shots with water droplets on them.

Jon

[ajwaverider]

Jon!What thickness suit are you wearing up there now?