Medicine Lake

[DiverQueen]

Medicine Lake report:  Smurfette 100 and I did a snorkel trip on Medicine Lake from West Medicine Lake Park.  For being a holiday weekend for sure it was a busy place, but we didn't have trouble finding spots to park (in the shade to boot!) 

We entered to the left of the swim beach and didn't seem to alarm the lifeguards too much!  ;D  Lots of weeds and very shallow.  Turned into the wind and swam outside the swim area border to the south.  The boaters and jetskiers need a lesson on what a dive flag is...(Not a target to drive at!)  One boat must have come about 50 feet from us towing a skier! 

Past the fishing dock and the wooden covered bridge, the vis got better near the bottom, I found a huge clam shell in open, empty, (spread like a butterfly!) perfectly intact shape!.  I just put it inside my dive float and hadn't zipped the zipper when a gust of wind and waves flipped my float over.  It's O.K. everything stayed inside!  Nearer to the swim area, I found a very old corroded Aluminum Hamms beer can with no top on it!  Quite the biology lesson swimming around inside it!  Tiny little leech, maybe crayfish, other Larva....

A fun trip for local and quick!  It's about to turn pretty green pretty soon.  Go dive before the vis drops.  Vis was 3' at the surface and 6' down deeper!  Temp 77 at surface and 65 at 15ft.