Clown Dori:
Leopard Dori:
Hangin' out on some kelp:
The dive report (with more pics!) is posted on my dive forum here:
http://www.nwdiveclub.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=6511&p=75404#p75404
After that, we decided to do a hike on Whidbey Island (since we were already there) called the Bluff Loop Trail. It was supposed to be a flat 3.2 mile hike. Oddly, it wasn't really that flat, but it wasn't difficult by any means. Because the book we have "Take a Hike, Seattle" is horrible with both directions to trails and maps of the trail itself, it is often easy to go on the wrong trail when there are several of them running over each other (as was the case for Squak Mountain, and now this trail). The book doesn't bother to include parts of the trail(s) it doesn't want you to follow or trails that cross your path that the author just doesn't deem to be important. This resulted in us taking the correct trail the wrong direction for quite awhile at one point, thinking it was only supposed to go one way. I thought something was wrong because my GPS showed us heading out of the state park and finally we realized that the author didn't map the trail going both ways. By this time, we'd eaten quite a bit of time in our already dwindling daylight. We did manage to get back before it was too dark to see though, and the trail along the bluff was quite beautiful.
Bluff looking down... a ways -
Sweet Tree -
Puget Sound -
Altimeter Reading (the altimeter hasn't been calibrated on my GPS so I don't actually know how accurate this is... obviously it's not flat though :P ).
Map Track - you can see the nice long strip we had to back track :P This 3.2 mile hike turned into 5 miles.
Which had led to...
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