Tuesday was the first day that we had blue skies, but we were warned that with the blue skies we would get wind. In the morning, we went to Portal Point, but it was too rough to put the zodiacs in the water, so there was no landing or diving :(. Instead, we headed to Wilhelmina Bay to look for whales, which we saw quite a few of. There were a few small groups of humpback whales feeding and fluking, but nothing crazy interesting. It was really quite windy out on the deck watching the whales though.
In the afternoon we headed to Foyn Harbor, where there is a wreck of a whaling boat. It is half above water and half below. I was honestly not that excited about a wreck, but it was a pretty cool dive. There was a lot of encrusting life, like anemones and these yellow finger-shaped sponges, both on and around the wreck. I also found 4 slugs that I have yet to identify, that had this squiggly white pattern on their backs that reminded me of a lettuce sea slug.
When we surfaced, Rob stayed in the water to do some over-under, while the rest of us hung out on the boat. The weather was super nice — blue skies, very nice scenery around, and it was high 40s. Rob eventually got back in the boat, then after a little while he decided to get back in the water and snorkel with his camera. At some point we got word that there were 40 knot winds at the boat, so we couldn’t return just yet. Then shortly after that we were told we could in fact return to the boat when we wanted to. But it was a good excuse to stay out longer.
A few of the divers were agitating for a second dive on the wreck, and they managed to convince the powers that be to do it. I opted out, since at the moment I was told I needed to decide, I still could not feel all of my toes. In the end, it took a while for them to get off the boat, so maybe I could have done it. But the wind had kicked up and I think I was happy to stay on the big boat.
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