6/6/2006 - Another Day At The Quarry

                Well today since i am on vacation and my plans to go to San Diego fell thru i was able to go diving down at Haigh Quarry  in Kankakee IL  my home away from home when diving i was just there two weeks ago .  Yesterday went i went to one of my  LDS for an air fill there was a women who had ask if i would like to join her group for a day of diving at the Quarry on Tuesday.I said sure so we made plans and set a time to meet. 

                  We  met this morning at 7:30am at the quarry there were 4 of us Maggie  her daughter  Julie and Mike her daughters boyfriend. Air temp today was about 83degrees windy this time 16  to 21 mph out of the south  west water temp was 64 to 25feet about 53 at 45feet the vis was still good at 30ft.

                    Did two good dives the first dive was to 40 feet and yes i did wear my hood and gloves not like two weeks ago when i did wear them. Both dives were deep water entry s off the piers they have and both exits were done up the ladder onto the peir. On the first dive we floated over to the wall i dove two weeks ago and this time we drop down to 40 ft and started a nice sl;ow wall dive stopping to look with our flash lights into the nooks and in between the rocks lots of fish all over the place today.First dive was 40 ft for 38 minutes.Took a nice two hour break between dives.                    

                       Second dive we took up where we left off at the wall drop down to 30 ft and followed it till  the end.  We went over to golf ball rock, from there to the rock crusher and drill with a lot of exploring done looking under  the rock crusher with flashlights. This time lots of catfish .As we started to run low on air 600 psi we surface and decider to float over to the deep water entry piers and exit like last time. Second dive 30ft 35 minutes.

                        It was fun  and what made it a lot of fun was first this was the first time these 3 had been to this quarry. There use to going  to Pearl Lake  which is  north west of Chicago. I took my AOW classes there  it was a sand quarry. Second sometimes  a last minute plan is better then one made weeks in  advance. Until next time

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