More Contest Photos

Here's a couple other photos that I took for that contest, but didn't get them in before the deadline.

Scuba Diving

My friend Jason and I went scuba diving in Lake Wazee (Near Black River Falls, WI) on Friday. It was my first time in the last 2 years, so it was nice to have an easy shore dive as a refresher. Wazee is an abandoned iron mine that has filled in with water to become a 355' deep lake. The bottom is made up of a combination of sheer cliffs and sloping access roads, so there are a variety of environments to dive in. Normally the visibility is supposed to be 30-40', but we went right after a big thunderstorm that kicked up enough setiment to drop the vis to about 8'. We got to do one dive in a sunken forest at about 30', then another dive along a wall where we went to a platform at around 55'. Due to the thermocline, our time below 30' was pretty limited. At surface, the water was around 70 degrees, but at the 55' platform it was around 34 degrees. Brrrrr. We did see lots of bass and panfish in the shallower waters and got to try throwing rocks under water. It's a lot harder than it sounds.

Photo Contest

Kim's office is redecorating, so they decided to hold a photo contest as a way of getting some artwork. The theme had to be minnesota-based. Kim and I spent a couple hours around the cities shooting, and here's a couple of the shots we came up with. Hope you like em.

Wausau 8-13

Finally made it back to Wausau for the first time this summer. Bill K, Dennis, Nate, Ben Swails, and some others got to go play on the course all day. Can't get enough of that loop hole. Everybody managed to hit some pretty sweet moves and we all got treated to watching some great paddlers going big. Can't wait to go back.