Greenling

I've always wondered why a beautiful brown-red spotted fish would be called a "greenling" as it happens my dive buddy shot one... and the inspiration for the name became clear once we started cleaning the catch!

Newport Dive

Here's my stringer of fish. Today I shot 5 perch and a black rock fish... and there was another that somehow wiggled off the shaft before I could grab it.

As we got into the water, a grey whale was playing in the harbor. It kept breeching... came almost all the way out of the water several times. It worked its way across in front of us (boaters stopping to watch), and then headed back out to sea.

The water is very warm (with a heavy wetsuit) and visibility varied a lot as the tide changed. Overall visibility was probably averaging 8 to 10 ft. The water was clear enough that it was still light at the bottom of the channel (~ 30 ft).

We got in the water after low tide. With a 7 ft exchange, it was quite a fight to not get washed back into the harbor. (Remember that for future dive planning!) Once the tide began to stabilize near high tide. Conditions improved a lot and I could relax enough to get some deeper dives in.

This dive was the most fun of the free-diving I've done so far.