The continuing sagas of the Blue Heron Bridge

[mntlblok]

Bridge scootin

I will be doing a scooter dive from the bridge

Sumpin like this?

Kevin



I haven't a clue why the pics sometimes show up as thumbnails and sometimes not. BTW, these pics were with a 60mm macro lens and no flash.

 

[danvolker]

That's a great photo Kevin! You can actually see his lure. Neither my eyesight nor camera were sharp enough to zoom in on that little detail. Very cool.

I think that jaw-stretching is part of his feeding behavior. Carol was able to watch him doing that for a long time one day last week.


I'm heading up there tomorrow but I plan to explore a different area. I don't think I'll make it to Pink's house.

I got the lure fairly well at the end of this 2 and a half minute video YouTube - ‪flounder-and-frogfish‬‏

 

[danvolker]

Sumpin like this?

Kevin

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I haven't a clue why the pics sometimes show up as thumbnails and sometimes not. BTW, these pics were with a 60mm macro lens and no flash.

The scooters are exactly like that
Unfortunately, our trek today did NOT get us to the artificial reef...the gps numbers were not correct.....I will need to have a charter boat get me to this, learn the visual marks and take my own gps on it....

 

[mntlblok]

Pink lure

I got the lure fairly well at the end of this 2 and a half minute video YouTube - ‪flounder-and-frogfish‬‏

Cute music for the flounder minuet.

I'll leave it to others to decide whether the lure of the Potato Head counts.

Kevin

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

I dove the bridge today. When I saw all the divers entering the water, I made up my mind to drift over to the east span and see what was happening.

In hindsight, after speaking with Anne (She says: that's it! No more weekend diving the bridge until summer is over). I, on the other hand, had a relaxing 2.5 hour dive and swam right up to (but not under) the east span. There was one instructor who swam up with his class, saw I was taking pictures and moved down current to have his class kneel in the sand. By the time I was done shooting, they were done with their "practice" and he brought them back to the location I was done shooting (Kudos to that instructor for his situational awareness and decency!)

Looking into the underside of the bridge looks very promising. The area around the bridge will recover and will have bonus when it does. It appears they needed to find all the power lines that were buried, so many of the lines that used to be buried in the sand are now above the sand line and will take on new growth with the coming year. What I saw under the bridge (from where I could view) is unfettered soft coral growth under the span in many locations. For the most part, the pylons that were there with growth are still there with growth, and the new pylons placed next to the old, are gathering growth at an accelerated rate of speed.

From my viewing today, I am pretty stoked to have this site enhanced considering what could have happened. The small wreck that was up against the east span (south) is gone (and, it would have been foolish to think it would last there, but much of the debris from the area is still in the area and remained untouched...

From the above ground look, it appears the bridge span will be done soon... I miss diving the north section of that bridge and I am excited with anticipation of what is still there, and what had to be removed

I'll be diving the west span on Monday... See you there!

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

OK, I own some web hosting and haven't busted my data transfer... ever! So, I installed a photo hosting software for my photos to be housed in one place, rather than all over the web (I have run out of space on SB five times and reached my 200 photo level on flkr day one)

So, my photos will now be self hosted at Home | My eLiving Gallery

Today's photos:

The rest can be seen at:

http://www.myeliving.com/gallery/index.php?/category/32

 

[Onewolf]

My wife did her first bridge dive on Sunday and she had a great time. I've never seen so many cars in the parking lot (getting tickets and towed!) nor so many divers in the water. This was my first dive with my new 100mm f2.8 IS macro lens. It's definitely more challenging to find/track subjects with the 100mm versus the 60 mm macro lens.

More photos from Sunday: Blue Heron Bridge 2011

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

the jawfish photo. You can see the babies eyes!

 

[mntlblok]

I fear I'm doomed to never find that type of jawfish, much less *any* jawfish with a mouth full of eggs. :depressed: *So* dern cool.

I'd love to hear more about the differences you perceive in shooting with the 100 vs. the 60. I already have a dickens of a time finding my center red square that lights up when autofocusing - without which I'd have no clue where I was aimed. Assuming that you also utilize that gadget for aiming purposes, is it significantly different with the 100mm? Do you miss the different capabilities of the 60mm much when shooting with the 100?

With all these cool pics getting posted and with the east span apparently opening up and with the summer slow-down in the office, I'm very tempted to hop back in the car tomorrow afternoon and head south again. . .

Kevin

My wife did her first bridge dive on Sunday and she had a great time. I've never seen so many cars in the parking lot (getting tickets and towed!) nor so many divers in the water. This was my first dive with my new 100mm f2.8 IS macro lens. It's definitely more challenging to find/track subjects with the 100mm versus the 60 mm macro lens.

 

[mntlblok]

I think that jaw-stretching is part of his feeding behavior. Carol was able to watch him doing that for a long time one day last week.

After watching Dan's video, it seems clear to me that the guy is belching. Come to think of it, that's also part of *my* feeding behavior.

Come to think of it, I've now finished the behavior book. I can never look at sex (and sexes) the same way again. I'll also be treating late afternoon dives differently.

Kevin