Our day
started out as the last several have, but the boat left a little later than
usual as we had a couple of Chinese divers joining us and they were driving
themselves to the shop. Apparently the
Chinese are routinely late and you have to tell them and earlier time if you
want them to actually show up on time.
Once the
two Chinese guys arrived we set off for the first dive site, Dexter’s
wall. Even though we had a few more
divers today, it was just Fabio, Tua, Eric, and me underwater, which was very
nice. We had a nice slow dive where we
could wander along and check everything out at our own pace.
If you want to see turtles, go to
Dexter’s wall. Just as we dropped in
there were three turtles within a 12 square foot area. Then as we went along on the dive I quit
counting them as there were so many. I
got some good footage of a turtle getting his shell cleaned by a couple fish at
a cleaning station. Then another turtle
came gliding in to have his shell cleaned too.
It was rather funny watching them jockey for positions to see who would
get cleaned next.
Toward the end of the first dive we
saw a huge aggregation of yellowfin fish which only occurs during the new
moon. There were so many fish it was
like the whole wall was alive with fish.
It was quite something to see.
Eric said he could have spent the whole dive there photographing the
masses of fish.
For the second dive we decided to
try Blue Corner again. So far we have
not managed to have much current there.
To really see a lot of sharks, a lot of large schools of fish, and a lot
of action, you need a really good current.
So we thought maybe this time we would get some current, but mother
nature just has not been cooperating so far.
Again, we had very slack current that actually changed about three times
during the dive. It was a nice dive, but
not as exciting as it could have been with some current.
After the second dive we went to
German Channel and sat out our safety stop and had our lunch. The Chinese and Japanese wanted to do a third
dive there, so the rest of us waited on the boat while they did their third
dive.
We then headed back to the dive
shop. After arriving at the dive shop
and rinsing off our cameras, we decided to have a drink at the Drop Off and
check our emails. Then we decided while
we were there we might as well go ahead and order dinner while it was
relatively quiet. The Drop Off tends to
get very loud and very busy later on the evening. As we were waiting for our dinner, Mandy
stopped by to tell us that Curtis Salgado (a famous blues musician) was on the
island and was going to stop by and play for about 30 minutes before his flight
out.
So we hung around for a little
while after our dinner to hear him play.
He did three songs (vocals and harmonica). Boy could this guy play harmonica. It was nice to hear something other than
recorded music for a change. After he
got done playing we picked up all our stuff and headed across the street to our
apartment to get cleaned up and ready to do it all over again tomorrow.
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