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By Christie Ball
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Trip To Porthardy June 2008 |
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| After a long journey up to Port Hardy, which included black bear and eagle sightings, we finally laid eyes upon the Mamro. Our home for the weekend, the Mamro has cozy bunks, delicious food, and a fantastic host, Dan. We were treated to a moonlit cruise up to Clam Cove, which would be our base of operations. |
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| In the morning, we set up our rigs on the skiff, which is the ultimate in diving convenience. It ferried us to our dive sites from Clam Cove, and meant no tearing down gear in between dives, Dan just fills your tanks right on the skiff. |
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Our dives included world famous Browning Wall (twice!), 7 Tree Island, and Clam Cove Wall. We saw wolf eels, sea lions, basket stars, soft corals, and all kinds of sponges. The marine life is dense, varied, and virtually untouched this far from civilization. Highlights included the humpbacks swimming past the boat in Browning Pass, a kelp forest safari (bring your knife!), and a drift dive that ended in a forest of thousands upon thousands of anemones. The night dive was memorable, when we turned off our lights and looked up, the bull kelp was silhouetted in the bright moon, and the Plumose Anemones looked like giant powder puffs with sparkles (the current pushes the bio- luminescence into them.) All good things must end, however, and we motored back to Port Hardy ahead of the squall that had spared us all weekend. Definitely a trip to remember, and one to repeat. |
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