Hey James, how's it going? Hey man, yeah, good, you? Yeah, pretty good. It's, you know, it's Monday here, but it was a good one as Mondays go.

Yes, we got blessed with a few days of nice weather here in in

Vancouver so I think this is a good way to kind of round off what was actually a long

like a holiday weekend for for those of us in British Columbia.

Oh nice.

Feel like doing a show? Yeah let's go for it.

Super.

Welcome to episode 28 of the gray native, a loose discussion of travel, adventure, diving, gear, and most certainly

watches. Thanks for listening.

So what have you been up to?

Well, you know, the weather here has been really strange. It's been

unseasonably warm for about the past three weeks and like above freezing which is

odd for Minnesota, but last weekend was, you know, fairly cold it was it was below freezing and

I had a chance to go and do some ice diving which is something I haven't done yeah

I haven't done that in a couple of years I I got my Ice Diver certification about I guess it was about three winters ago on a lake just outside of Minneapolis here.

The shop that does the certification courses does these classes every year.

They do like, you know, one weekend a winter because it's a bit of a bit of a

bit of a process to get everything set up and going, but they offer past people that have been certified in the past to come and get some dives in if we're willing to help out with the setup and be a dive buddy for some of the new guys that are getting

their certifications.

That's a neat setup.

Yeah, it's really cool.

So I got my tanks filled and you know went out there last Saturday morning.

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