Sun, 13 Mar.
slept until 8am, then headed in to town and stopped at Blue Channel for an omelet and the internet. the internet was slow and the omelet was tasteless ... so i went to Rudy's for a Papaya Smoothie, :), then to the internet cafe to work on my blog.
i agreed to meet Marti at 1pm at her place to decide if we wanted to do a dive today; we heard the visibility wasn't too bad. so i arrived and we decided to go for it, even though the skies were threatening. she is diving with Sea Grape Dive Shop, so i got signed up and we headed out to a dive site called Peter's Place. it was a rough and cold ride out there, the swells were pretty large and there was no sun :( there were a group of students, so it was decided that Marti and i would dive together, since she is a Dive Master ... i had a one-on-one dive :) yeahhhhhhhhh. Marti had her camera and took my picture.
ta-da.
we went down, and i was happy that the visibility was really good, especially after a few days of rain. it seemed like we went down quite far, but i couldn't really read my gauges very well, so i didn't know for sure. it was a real pretty dive with lots of HUGE Barrel Sponges. we saw several Lionfish, and one of the other divers had a Sling and 'slayed' them :) ... we also saw one HUGE one, right out in the open, but couldn't get his attention to kill it. also saw a lobster and a large crab. saw a large Porcupine fish with those eyes.
i saw 2 fishes interacting, i don't know what they were doing, but right in front of my face, they locked jaws and just hung here ... 6" from my face. then released and swam away ... ???? amazing! Marti took me through some canyons and we eventually finished ... while we were going up, a HUGE Black Grouper cruised by right in front of me! .... he was really really big! what a way to end the dive! on the way home, Marti said, ...did you know you went to 100' ? .... according to my 'classification' ... i'm not supposed to go below 80' .... i am such a 'rebel' :)
nice hair.
back home, changed, and met Marti back at her place. we made Nachos, then went to Ronnie's Barefoot Bar (right next to home) for 'jump up' ... that means dancing :) it was fun, and i was home by 11pm ... time for bed !
we went down, and i was happy that the visibility was really good, especially after a few days of rain. it seemed like we went down quite far, but i couldn't really read my gauges very well, so i didn't know for sure. it was a real pretty dive with lots of HUGE Barrel Sponges. we saw several Lionfish, and one of the other divers had a Sling and 'slayed' them :) ... we also saw one HUGE one, right out in the open, but couldn't get his attention to kill it. also saw a lobster and a large crab. saw a large Porcupine fish with those eyes.
i saw 2 fishes interacting, i don't know what they were doing, but right in front of my face, they locked jaws and just hung here ... 6" from my face. then released and swam away ... ???? amazing! Marti took me through some canyons and we eventually finished ... while we were going up, a HUGE Black Grouper cruised by right in front of me! .... he was really really big! what a way to end the dive! on the way home, Marti said, ...did you know you went to 100' ? .... according to my 'classification' ... i'm not supposed to go below 80' .... i am such a 'rebel' :)
nice hair.
back home, changed, and met Marti back at her place. we made Nachos, then went to Ronnie's Barefoot Bar (right next to home) for 'jump up' ... that means dancing :) it was fun, and i was home by 11pm ... time for bed !
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