Well, since my adventures in searching for my camera I haven’t done much diving. I was supposed to investigate a site on Lake Lanier that held a race track at one time (obviously, before the lake was there back in the late 40’s and early 50’s), however, since I couldn’t get a buddy, it ended up getting cancelled. then I went to San Francisco for a conference, upon my return an incident at the baggage handling machine resulted in a broken little finger on my left hand, yes it hurt quite a bit thank you for asking!

Anyway, you don’t realize how much you need that little finger on either hand. The little finger assist with stabilization of the fingers during gripping and other “whole hand” operations. In addition to its normal duties, having any finger, let alone the little one, perpetually sticking out due to a splint gets a bit tiring as well and makes doing mundane things challenging. Try pulling on a wetsuit with a finger in a splint, or, doing a valve drill on a set of doubles. Needless to say, I haven’t been able to think of diving for that last couple of weeks due to travel and due to the broken finger.

I hope that my four week checkup on the little finger reveals it is well on the mend, as that will correspond to a planned trip to snorkel with the Manatees at Crystal River and do a drift dive down the Rainbow River in Florida. Of course there is also the Lake Lanier Looney Bird fourth annual induction event where new members have to dive in Lake Lanier on New Years day (20 feet for 20 minutes minimum, come on out! It may be the last chance to dive in Lake Lanier if the levels keep going down…)

I had to cancel my planned return to Rock Lake, Wisconsin to do further investigations into the pyramids supposedly located in the deep area of the lake, of course it turns out that the time I planned to do that may have been too late as the freeze is due to occur this week. Guess I’ll wait for the ice melt in spring.

Anyway, that’s all the news that is fit to print, so until the next time, keep safe and have fun diving!