· Underwater · 3 min read
My October Underwater
I did 4 dives at two of my most visited sites this month. Not a lot going on under the surface this month, but I did find a few interesting creatures.
October 5 - Fort Wetherill (Jamestown, Rhode Island)
Gear configuration: Olympus E-PL9 + 30mm macro lens
We met a diver who had done a dive a bit earlier and said the viz was some of the best he had seen, but it’s Fort Wetherill so you never know. We entered the water and the viz was quite bad. I immediately found a kingfish in a couple feet of water, but it was very skittish. We continued on for a long while finding occasional squid, but otherwise very little. On the way back in, I hung around in the shallows a bit and found a kingfish and then hopped out and headed home. This wasn’t a great dive.
October 10 - Folly Cove (Gloucester, Massachusetts)
Gear configuration: Olympus E-PL9 + Olympus 60mm macro lens
We managed to sneak in a dive between some messy early week weather and an upcoming nor’easter. There was a fair bit of water movement, but it was actually decent underneath. I was running a bit late, so I didn’t seal up my camera until arriving at the site and it took a few tries before getting the green light. It was dead low king tide, so there was quite a bit of walking to find chest depth and then we wandered out the right side. I quickly found a cigar minnow, which had a striking green color as it swam around in the water column. We cruised around for awhile and didn’t see a whole heck of a lot. The water was nice and warm and pretty pleasant, just not much going on down there.
October 24 - Folly Cove (Gloucester, Massachusetts)
Gear configuration: Olympus E-PL9 + Olympus 60mm macro lens
It was a beautiful sunny day for a dive, but the critters were mostly in hiding. I did find a small short bigeye early in the dive, so I spent some time working on some different images. As it turns out, we could have just called it there because we didn’t see much in the remaining hour of the dive.
October 26 - Fort Wetherill (Jamestown, Rhode Island)
Gear configuration: Olympus E-PL9 + Olympus 30mm macro lens
Super quiet dive at Fort Wetherill. There wasn’t very much to see other than a few skates, a tiny sea robin in the sand, one butterflyfish buried in the rocks, and one coronetfish in the eel grass. I only took 37 pictures in 1h40 underwater.
