7 adventurous souls made the trek down to 1000 Island Pleasure Divers on Saturday morning forgetting that this was the Poker run weekend. We had a great view of the boats as they ran up and down the river all day Saturday. This was the perfect way to spend a Saturday.
We were joined by three other dives from Carlton Place for the the first two dives. I would like to take the time to thank them for a great day and hope we meet again sometime.
Our first dive was to the Keystorm. We came down the line at the mast. My buddy and I then followed the mast out to the end thinking we would get a great view of the wreck but the visibility only let us see a slight outline. We then came back in to the wreck and turned to our right. This brought us to the wheel house. We had a short swim through and followed the wreck up to the bow. We then swam around to the bottom of the boat to see the holes that were put in it when it hit the shoal. Once having had a look at that, we swam down to about 60 feet and then came over the top of the boat. As we were rising over the top we had a great view of the fish that were hanging out here away from everyone down below. We then came over the side and headed for our up line. I would say we had about 20 feet of visibility and the water temperature was 72 degrees.
After our lunch which consisted of subs as well as banana muffins and chocolate brownies provided by one of our members (Ashley) we headed out on our second dive of the day.
After our surface interval we all jumped into the water behind Singer Castle. Here we were out of the boat traffic and we could look for buried treasure. The water depth was about 45 feet and the water was much clearer than at the Keystorm. Most of the divers found bottles of some kind. Some more interesting than others but all were pretty happy with their find.
We then returned to Caiger's to let off our new friends and one of our members who couldn't stay for the rest of the day. Once customs released us we traveled down to Eagle Point where we did a drift dive. Even though the water on the surface was rough the water below was quite calm. We had a nice slow drift. I had a chance to check out the fish and I found a big mud cat. Scott tells me he saw one bigger than the one I found but I think he is just trying to compete with me. He sure didn't take the time to point it out to me. We then headed back to Caiger's where they had pizza ready for us.
All in all it was a fantastic day.
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