Afternoon Dive with JP!

After not diving for most of the summer with Jesse we were finally able to to plan a dive on a day where the weather and water was cooperative. We decided to do a late afternoon dive since the tide was good and the wind was down. After eating lunch at my place and everything loaded up, we headed out.

Upon arriving at the spot we go to check out the water and the conditions were really nice! Walking back from the cliff we see a green toyota tacoma parked right next to our truck. After meeting and talking stories with this guy he told us he was the one responsible for building those ladders that we climbed down!

We finish suiting up and start to hike down. Upon jumping in and swimming out we see a small Kawakawa attacking the nehu. We decide to swim to the right and keep up a constant pace so that we could reach the point just around feeding time. We stop by the omilu house and I ask JP if he wants to check. He agrees and breathes up for about a minute before going down. He reports seeing no omilus but an omilu carcass with my shaft inside it! (I lost previously on a dive.) We decide to keep swimming towards the point.

Upon reaching the point we start to see some action. I keep on wanting to swim farther into unexplored territory but my watch says its already 5pm and we are at least an hours swim down current from our entry point. I don't see much out in the deep so I head in shallow and see a nice omilu swim right below me. I take a drop and hide behind a rock. I start to dust and peek up and the omilu is right in front of me. I get a good shot in the gill plate and swim back towards my float.

We decide its finally time to head back since it was getting dark. On the journey home I take a drop on a Mu and get a shot off. We drift back to the omilu house and can see the sun setting which gives us just enough light to check the house. Out of the corner of my eye I see a HUGE omilu swimming mid water. I throw my spoon and so does Jesse but fail to entice the beast.

Right around that time I see another omilu/ulua swim into the back part of the cave. By this time its getting really dark so we decide to call it a day. We had to swim around the fishermen's lines and climb out in the dark.

So ends the story of another epic dive with JP!