The beautiful, calm water above looks nice enough however what lies beneath is a whopping 45 degrees and as my dive instructor put it: "it's not cold, it's lacking warmth". Um, yeah. But you'll be glad to know that at 50 feet below its only 38 degrees. As I put it: "that's ass cold is what that is". You'll see by my super-hot outfit below that leaping into that kind of water temperature requires a nice 14mm of wetsuit...which is nice and hot on the dock but then the water slowly seeps in from the top. Oh baby.
The boy that was kind enough to be sweet-talked into jumping in that water with me. He wasn't wearing quite as thick a wetsuit so I owe him hot chocolate for the rest of his life.
In case you're wondering what exactly is the draw at the quarry - here's the map. It's really kinda cool because there is lots of sunken stuff like an airplane, bus, helicopter and an interesting assortment of oddities from cars to soda machines. I thought all the sunken stuff rocked and I have always thought shipwrecks were cool so now I can't wait to dive a real wreck here in Michigan.
The whole crew (about 12 of us) went to a nearby town for a uber-good BBQ dinner. While waiting Tony and I stumbled across a great little town next door that had a gorgeous church, great little park and a very interesting cemetery - all the stones were made into a grotto at one corner. You gotta love road trips and the unexpected places they take you...
I'm looking forward to diving all summer throughout Michigan but I can hardly stand the wait until we go diving in Honduras in September! OK. So that's it, I'll shut up and I'll try not to be such a blogging slacker from now on...
