Amazing Diving - Les Escoumins

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• Aug 7, 2002

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Les Escoumins, east of the Saguenay river is the best diving I've done since Mexico.
Yes the water is cold - 48 F, but I was in a 7 + 5 wet suit and still dove for 40 min.
The highlight for me was feeding a wolf eel/wolf fish a sea urchin - very fun!
The sea life are amazing - many, many star fish, urchins, crabs, wolf eels, eels, cod, shrimp, jelly fish.
The land in this area is so beautiful - water falls with a salmon run.
Whale watching was exciting. We saw many balluga, minky.
One day we saw a huge blue whale only 300 feet from shore going by a group of divers. The divers did'nt see him though.
This is a wonderful trip for a long weekend - I'm definitely going back.

 

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• Aug 8, 2002

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Thanks for the update Barb,

We're (small group from Peterborough) are heading there on Labour Day.

regards

Mike

 

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• Aug 8, 2002

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I have never been to Les Escoumins but I have heard from several friends that it is quite the dive... and you've just re-iterated it.

Sounds like an AMAZING dive! Thanks for sharing it with us.


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• Sep 7, 2002

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10 of us Just got back for a week at Les Escoumins.
Diving was great, visibility = excellent, weather good, water cold varied 38° at low tide to 34°F at high tide.

We found an Arlantic Wolf eel and spend 2-3 dives feeding him sea urchins and taking his picture. Got some with my Aquashot3 and some on video. I 'll post some if they turn out.


Mike
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• Sep 11, 2002

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Your friendly neibourhood Wolf Eel


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• Sep 11, 2002

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• Sep 17, 2002

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I love your pictures !!!
They bring back very happy memories for me.
That Wolfie looks very familiar (a bit larger since the last time I saw him/her - probably does'nt get much exercise all those divers hand feeding, he, he, he)
I was so inspired after I fed the wolf eels that I made a Raku Mask of one (Raku is a pottery technique).
Thanks again for the great pictures - I plan to go back again next August long weekend - hopefully wearing a drysuit this tiime.

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• Oct 3, 2002

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I just got my pictures back from our Les Escoumins trip.

These were taken at night, with an Aquashot 3e (with Fuju Endeavour10 camera, and 50 watt halogen flood bulb in my cannister light.

Was I surpised at the results.

Mike D
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