Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Custom House Beach – Deer Island, New Brunswick

Great couple of dives today.  The whole area here’s been through some changes, though, thanks to tropical storm Arthur.  By the way, what’s a tropical storm doing in Canada.  It must have taken a wrong turn somewhere around Cape Cod and then refused to stop to ask for directions.           

But it wreaked some real havoc.  Some people are still without electricity or water.  Deer Island seems virtually deserted.  And here at the dive site, the path to the water from the lot is blocked by downed trees.  Sounds like a job for CoJo Diving!                          

Despite the storm, though, dive conditions have ranged from good to fantastic.  And today was on the fantastic end, with viz in the 25- to 30-foot range.  As always, tons of life – northern reds, scuplin, nudis, wolfish, moon jellies.  Didn’t want to come out of the water.   If this isn’t one of the premier dive sites on the east coast, then I don’t know what is.             

The only real downer for me has been the universal lack of reaction up here in the great white north to my Bruins hat.  There’s been no hassling, no gnashing of teeth, no annoyed comments.  They didn't even insist on a search going through customs.  After the Bruins’ chicken sh*t loss to Montreal in the playoffs, they’ve returned to near irrelevance up here.  Well, what are you going to do.  Time to go carve some urchin spines out of my knee.



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