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Old 07-13-2008, 10:00 AM   #6 (permalink)
LCF
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Join Date: 08/07/2007
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Woodinville, WA
Dives Logged: 101-500
The Bandito boats are good charters -- They're spacious and organized, and the captains are good. The sites they will do will be determined by the tide and current information on the day that you dive; at least on the charters I've done with them, they've never asked us where we wanted to go.

My favorite South Sound sites from the boat are Sunrise (which can be done as a shore dive, with a punishing hike), KVI Towers, and Zee's Reef. Sometimes they'll also do Day Island Wall, which is a wonderful dive, but one I've only done from shore. Their second site is often a current-insensitive one like the Maury Island Barges, which tend to be silty and less interesting.

Bandito also operates a boat in the San Juan Islands. I've only been up there once. The viz tends not to be terribly good in the San Juans, but because there's a lot of current there, there's a lot of life and a different spectrum of critters from what we see in the central or South Sound.
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