Well we went to Tabel Rock this past weekend and the down and dirty of it was, air temp 43* water temp at the surface was 57*, temp at 45ft was 55*, vis was abotu 8 ft.
Now I just have to tell a little story about the weekend. Well Sat we get up and it is about 25* outside so since we are diving wet we decide to wait until the afternoon to get into the water. We have never been to Dewey Short so we just took a trip over there in the morning to check it out. Cummings66 I am kind of glad that you were not able to make it because the wind in the main part of hte lake was blowing at about 25 mph and was extremely cold. So we decided that we were not going to dive there, we headed back to the house (which is on Point 2) and dive in that cove to be sheltered from the wind. About 2pm comes and it is just getting about 40* so we decide to strat getting everythign put together and then head to the lake. WELL, then it suddenly hits me like a ton of bricks that I left my regs at my house in St Louis. So needles to say the words that were coming out of my mouth I will not put in here, but lets just say I was not happy. Well all is not lost, the wifes are going to head over to the state park marina to rent a reg set and some boots, because I forgot those too. The marina is about 20 min away so after a little bit my wife calls and says that their dive shop is not open on the weekends yet. WHAT?!?!?! Again I was not happy. They also told my wife that none of the shops at the lake were open yet. Well she got the number and started calling and Scuba Sports was open ( I did not think they were because their website has been down for a while, but I will tellyou about that later in this story). She is talking to Monte on the phone and he tells her that yes we are open and can rent you the gear but we are not open on Sun. She expains the situation to him and he tells her that she can come and get the reg now and then he gave her his cell number to call him on Sun and he would come into the shop and open up for us to take his equipment back. That is and was awesome. I cannot tell you how much I appreciated that. Well anyway we are now all happy and in water getting ready to hit the bottom when my buddy realizes that he does not have his mask anymore. It fell off his arm after he got into the water somewhere. Now we are doing a shore dive and in only about 10 ft of water at the time but we had to kick out of the way of a boat that was being put into the lake so he had no idea when or where he lost it. After about 15 min of looking on the bottom which is completely covered with moss we finally found it and did a dive. It took an aweful lot of work to get that one dive in.
So anyway to Scuba Sports. I talked with Monte on Sun and thanks him a million times for helping me out. I then asked him about his website and he said that the registration expired and they did not know it and by the time they found out someone else had already bought the domain name. So they are in the process of tryign to get that back up and running. I also asked if there were going to be on the lake this year operating and he said that they were not 100% sure yet but they did not think so. They will have their boat in the water for guided dives but that is about it. This past weekend was my fist dealign with Scuba Sports and I have to say that I was impressed. It is to bad that they will not be on the lake because I think I would much prefer to go there to get air than the state park marina. Anyway they are a great shop and have earned my buisness when ever I can give it to them...
So anyway that was my weekend. Sorry it is so long but I just wanted to show how much crap we will do just to get into the water...
I hope that everyone had a great weekend...
Phil
