10 Mar, Thurs.

Thur, 10 Mar. another 6am morning, ....same work, ... but no fish. another TV crew came out today and interview a few more of the girls at the 'job site' .... they will be on TV again tonight! Tony's brother, from the mainland, called him last night and told him that he saw them on TV, ... that's pretty wide coverage! 3 of us girls got to leave early, at 1pm to go diving :) we dove the Blue Channel, which is the reef just beyond my dock. i saw a Hogfish as soon as we got down, also lots of Grouper, Parrotfish, a Lobster, and a tiny little Smooth Trunkfish. he was so cute! Many fishes are very different looking as they progress through their stages, from 'juvenile', to 'intermediate', to 'terminal', (which is horrible sounding term for an adult fish, i think). but this little fish was just a perfect miniature of an adult Smooth Trunkfish. i also saw a fish i had not seen before. i looked it up ... a Porkfish (not a nice name either!), ... the tail end is striped like a 'French Grunt', and the head looks like an Angelfish. this is what it looked like. the Blue Channel dive site has a channel that you go through which is 'blue' ... duhhhhh ... and it also has several 'pass throughs' that you can take, ...narrow canyons that cut through the coral, ...some of them covered, some open. i've never wanted to go 'under' or 'into' anything while diving ... afraid my equipment would get caught on something and i'd get stuck, drown, and die :) he told us we did have an option of going another way and meeting up at the other end. but when the time came to do the 'pass throughs', .... i went for it! it was way cool! .... you did have to change your depth to get through, over, and under some of the narrow passes. i definitely was glad the guide was leading, so i could follow, but i did it, ....and, i ain't scared no more! it was a fun dive! got cleaned up and met Marti at The Sundowner again. another beautiful sunset. we ate dinner at the Creole Rotisserie Chicken place ... and their reputation for wonderful chicken is confirmed! we both walked away full and with leftovers. we talked more about going to Cayos Cochinos and doing some diving this weekend.