Groene Heuvels With Seaword Crew

Ok yesterday we went on a trip with the Seaworld crew.

Destination: Groene Heuvels (eng. Green Hills).
Its lokated near Nijmegen so it was a pretty long trip, especially considering the fact we were driving in convoy (slooooooooooow).

Anyway once we got there it was quite buisy with other clubs that piced the same spot.
Forutnately, most of them were packing up to leave (bye bye!!!!! now leave us be :-p)

The water was pretty darn clear, bottom still visible at 6 meters.
Its nothing compared to tropical water, but still way better than the normal merky liquid we're used to.

First dive:
Me and Andre teamed up as buddy's for the first dive.
It wasn't our first dive together so we new how the other dove pretty well (I like that).
Well all in all it was a pretty uneventfull dive (ok blimmin boring would have fitted just as well).
Despite the clear water and the ,according to Koos, 99% chance of seeing tons of karp we saw 2 freshwater lobsters, and 2 perch, thats it.

Second dive:
Second dive we did in a three buddy team.
Andre and me we joined by Roger who's buddy got cold or something on the first dive.
We dicided that visiting the wreck would be fun, so we swam to the buoy and decended there.
2 other thought the could do with a compas and find it anyway, i sugget that next time they either decent at the buoy or learn how to navigate because the ended up probably as far away from the wreck as possible.
Anyway, the wreck was pretty nice, good visability, and we had some fun swimming in and out whilst trying not to kick up dust (and managed pretty well thank you!).
But a small wreck isn't enough to fill an hour so after 20 minutes we decided to head towards shore, during the swim to the shore we saw absulutely nothing accept plants.

All in all, nice diving but we could have done with a wee bit more fish :-p
I'm definately comming back to this place.

Dive with Vasco @ Tynaarlo 080906

Yesterday i've been diving with Vasco a buddy from duikforum.nl.
He was at a customer all day close to my dwellings, so why not combine work with pleasure ey!
So we went to Tynaarlo, which was poor to put it mildly the last time is was there, but word was it had improved.

And some improvement Tynaarlo has made in the last 2 weeks!
From being a murky putrid pool to nice and clear and full of life!

About 4 minutes into the dive we crossed paths with a pike that was well, rather impressive!
If i'd have to guess, about 80/90 Cm in lengthe and 13/5 cm think on the thickes part.
All in all, the king of the pond so to speak.
Then we came across about 4 juvenile pikes in 30 meters of water, love those their spot pattern is really sharp, great foto material, that is if i'd have a scuba-cam......

after being pulled back by my fins by Vasco we found a nice thick eel hiding in the plants, which was skillfully "coached" out of the planst by Vasco.
The eel was easily over a meter long.
The second eel was swimming around the open water but we lost him quite quickly in the chase.

The best part was when it became a bit darker, shining around with a lamp it looked like a starry night, silver flashes every where! thousands upon thousands of tiny stickle bass!!!!!

All in all, one of the best dives of the year!!!!