British Columbia Spearfishing Trip

[Fondueset]

Nice! The air in that place is just awesome.

[Erik]

Beautiful pic Jim. Not hard to find a good subject out there, eh (local slang overtly interjected for US residents)?
I wish someone would give me a job there

Erik

[feign]

If we are going to do Telegraph again, we will need to make sure that the boat details are laid down prior. We got lucky last time with a great short notice gig. I am trying to keep contact with our fearless captain and hopefully he will be available again. His boat as you know will have limits in the number of divers. I think we could have squeezed a couple more onboard? Also, in order to minimize our cruel and barbaric presence and keep the whale lady from exploding, I like how we met up at Beaver cove the next boat day at the abandoned docks. As far as where we stayed, I don't think it can get better than that with the showers, water, phone, freezer, store etc. all in such close proximity for diving style camping.

lee

[Fondueset]

How is Lindsey? I emailed him awhile ago and never heard back.

He did a great job on short notice - Though I did have a close call with the motors. A little more situational awareness re-divers would be good but I definitely liked him and would be very happy to have him as skipper again.

I think well-organized probably two more would fit on his boat, when all of us were there it was still pretty comfortable.

The campsite was great for sure. Our luxury accomodations were also extremely cool - being roughly 90 seconds from a good point of entry. No cooking was inconvenient however and houskeeping was horrified by what we were doing to their towels. Some of the other cabins have full kitchens and are quite cheap in the off-season - which is about a week earlier. I had a fortuitous convergence of fortunes for this trip - likely I'll camp next time.

I'd love to do that again. Much better heat conservation knowlege now for those long days. I also have an appointment with a large lincod and some good ideas re-photography and movies. I would really enjoy the opportunity to document the trip in a more systematic way - now that I have the lay of the land, eh. (I noticed the 'eh' is implicit more often than explicit) My bottom time is also steadily improving.

When we had to leave I was just getting started

[BatRay]

Beautiful pic, Jim. I'll try harder to make it if the trip is to TC again.

[Fondueset]

A couple of people on the trip were interested in Taiji. This video is really more of a warm up session - but I'd be filming every day for a week and still not have it right. So with the Caveat that there are many errors this is a vid of the second third of 'Old Yang Style' taijiquan. It's longer than the first third - with more low movements and 'fa-jing' (explosive movements) but not so much of either as the third third. Also, when I'm more warmed up, the movements become smaller and less defined. The video is also a bit on the fast side. It's kind of big so you might want to right click and save it to watch it. I tried to choose an appropriate soundtrack....

Fondueset's Taiji

[tylerz]

After the Telegraph Cove trip, I finally managed to get my housing for my S80 and on one of the successive sailing trips came up with the following footage from around Hornby Island and Quadra Island. By the way all the camera work was done with no-fins, so you can imagine the difficulties involved in trying to get smooth footage.
http://voxq.com/uploads/hornby-quadra-freedive.mov

Prior to that trip four of us Giovanni, Kimi, James, and myself sailed in and around Desolation Sound, and here are the photos above water:
http://www.voxq.com/tzett/scripts/si...?categoryId=19

Cheers,

Tyler

[Fondueset]

AWESOME!! That is a wonderful video Tyler!!

[harbour seal]

tyler,

beautiful shots. simply entrancing.

my favourite part is that lacksidasical seal cruising along in your direction but without yet spotting you. when it does see you and suddenly realizes you aren't a seal it starts backpedaling like mad---"whoa, nelly! where did you come from?"

thanks for sharing. i really enjoyed it.

sean
vancouver, canada

[iceselkie]

Wow..! Thankyou Tyler, that was an amazing vid. I as well, really loved the seal footage; and I am nostalgic, wishing more than ever for a repeat event on the coast this June! oOOoOo

[feign]

Awesome video Tyler. Thanks for sharing. The cool coast water looks so warm and inviting right now...it is -23 and snow-filled here today.

lee

[Fondueset]

Speaking of S80s - check this out from yesterday! Not cropped or zoomed! Tyler - amazing waters out there - I think the one seal felt sorry for you without fins She seemed to want to play.

[tylerz]

Cheers, thanks for all the feedback from everybody here and karma-wise!

I forgot to post this one from Ansell Point in Vancouver. Mermaids... oh troublesome mermaids... I dove down to free myself from the entrapments of mankind only to be engulfed in the manipulations of siren songs!

http://voxq.com/uploads/kelly-jelly-wrestler-1.mov

[tylerz]

Fondueset, I think you are unknowingly transforming into a fish... that would explain the close proximity to such denizens. Nice shots!

[Fondueset]

I have noticed a tendancy to make sudden changes of direction - and to dart after shiny objects.