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OK, so I needed to get away and clear my head. NO, REALLY! Only one place that can do that for me. Temagami, ON. You don't just take a course there, you live there for the week. Family. Been way too long. What was it? Winter of '17? Ice diving. Missing Steve (@abnfrog) and Roxanne bigtime!
Anyway, I was watching @Marie13 's posts (and thought that she needed to cool her jets a bit) so I invited (more like dared) her to take ITT with me in the unspoiled Canadian boonies. Somewhere between Sudbury (Alex Trebeck's home) and North Bay. She bit hook line and sinker. I have a Canadian dive bud!
Pay the $60 US and update your Garmin GPS. Holy Sheet!! The 'detours' on 11 and 17 are nothing short of legendary!!! (I saw some serious Canada) Two days travel. Treated myself to Holiday Inn Express. You can get breakfast at 6:00 and 8:30. No need for lunch! Same price on either side of the border, about $150 US. A bit steep, but clean, and passable 'continental' breakfast. I don't need much more than that.
My dive bud is staying on the property, but I need to check up on old friends running Northland Paradise about four miles down the road. Booked for the week. Doug will always be Doug. My hero, keeps pushing through life.
So we do ITT. Well for me, sort of. I don't give a sheet about cards, I brought DumpsterDiver's poodle jacket with me and a set of double 50's that I wanted to trim out. Drove Steve crazy getting the two rigs tuned. Steve: "You have to do the required skills or you don't get a card!" Me: The crabs in the back bays don't care about my cards..."
Me, no ITT card. Spent too much time tuning in other stuff. Most happy with the results. Good excuse to come back next year and piss around again. My dive partner got her ITT, worked for it too. No 'gimmies' in this operation. So anyhow, changing gears, I do need some cards and I worked for them! VIP and O2 Cleaning. Serious stuff, 100% on board. Nailed it. Arms still ache from O2 cleaning...
I faced the dreaded alumasteel cylinder and the 'something wong' 80. Jesus!!!
Wrap-up: Freaking beautiful place, even the bass have names. Watching the otters at sundown. Next year for sure, need it already...
Anyway, I was watching @Marie13 's posts (and thought that she needed to cool her jets a bit) so I invited (more like dared) her to take ITT with me in the unspoiled Canadian boonies. Somewhere between Sudbury (Alex Trebeck's home) and North Bay. She bit hook line and sinker. I have a Canadian dive bud!
Pay the $60 US and update your Garmin GPS. Holy Sheet!! The 'detours' on 11 and 17 are nothing short of legendary!!! (I saw some serious Canada) Two days travel. Treated myself to Holiday Inn Express. You can get breakfast at 6:00 and 8:30. No need for lunch! Same price on either side of the border, about $150 US. A bit steep, but clean, and passable 'continental' breakfast. I don't need much more than that.
My dive bud is staying on the property, but I need to check up on old friends running Northland Paradise about four miles down the road. Booked for the week. Doug will always be Doug. My hero, keeps pushing through life.
So we do ITT. Well for me, sort of. I don't give a sheet about cards, I brought DumpsterDiver's poodle jacket with me and a set of double 50's that I wanted to trim out. Drove Steve crazy getting the two rigs tuned. Steve: "You have to do the required skills or you don't get a card!" Me: The crabs in the back bays don't care about my cards..."
Me, no ITT card. Spent too much time tuning in other stuff. Most happy with the results. Good excuse to come back next year and piss around again. My dive partner got her ITT, worked for it too. No 'gimmies' in this operation. So anyhow, changing gears, I do need some cards and I worked for them! VIP and O2 Cleaning. Serious stuff, 100% on board. Nailed it. Arms still ache from O2 cleaning...
I faced the dreaded alumasteel cylinder and the 'something wong' 80. Jesus!!!
Wrap-up: Freaking beautiful place, even the bass have names. Watching the otters at sundown. Next year for sure, need it already...