What a perfect day. We did three dives today. They started out great and just kept getting better. The first site was Angel city. It had a nice entry point so we didn’t get pounded trying to get in or out. There was lots of neat critters on this dive. Eels, trumpet fish and of course Angels. The corals were beautiful and there were plenty of funny Christmas Tree worms too. These little critters are about the size of a Loonie and look like little bottle cleaner brushes...but if you get too close trying to take their picture they suddenly disappear! They suck their branches down into the coral. Cool!
We thought our second dive site was supposed to be White Slave but when we got there the distance out to the reef was a bit farther than some of the group wanted to swim so we took a couple of shots of the beautiful water then moved on.
We chose The Lake as our second site and it was a great choice. Again we had easy entrance/exit locations and the highlight of the dive was a turtle that greeted us when we got out there and let us accompany him for a few minutes. Awesome! This was a beautiful reef with plenty of interesting fish and sponges. We saw another eel and a pair of shrimp.
After the dives we decided to try Captain Don’s for lunch as we’d heard they had great pizza. They are the resort right next to ours. We never found out if the pizza is good or not because apparently they don’t start making it until after 3pm and we were far too hungry to wait so we chose other menu options. The food was ok but the highlight for me was the iguanas! They are just as pushy as any pigeon or seagull and far cuter! Needless to say they got well fed! LOL
After lunch Wade, Brian and I headed out for our third dive on Buddy’s Reef. Our dive plan was to just swim out to the reef to take pictures...no big tour, just hanging out with the fish. It was AWESOME! We saw so much cool stuff...lots of eels! Wade tried to save me from what we thought may be a sea snake that was actually a fish! Who knew? We got quite show when this fellow decided to eat what he could pull out of a Conch...he attracted several fish who were interested in his leftovers. We hung out in a big school of fish for a while then saw a Peacock Flounder on our way out. Very cool dive.
Just as we were getting ready to head out for a lobster dinner we heard folks shouting ‘Whale!’ from the dock area and came to see what was going on. Sure enough a pod of Whales was passing through between the islands. Apparently this is a very rare thing and it had been 7 years since any had been here. I got a few pics but they were pretty far away.
Dinner was the perfect end to a terrific day...absolutely delicious food with good friends and lots of laughs.
We thought our second dive site was supposed to be White Slave but when we got there the distance out to the reef was a bit farther than some of the group wanted to swim so we took a couple of shots of the beautiful water then moved on.
We chose The Lake as our second site and it was a great choice. Again we had easy entrance/exit locations and the highlight of the dive was a turtle that greeted us when we got out there and let us accompany him for a few minutes. Awesome! This was a beautiful reef with plenty of interesting fish and sponges. We saw another eel and a pair of shrimp.
After the dives we decided to try Captain Don’s for lunch as we’d heard they had great pizza. They are the resort right next to ours. We never found out if the pizza is good or not because apparently they don’t start making it until after 3pm and we were far too hungry to wait so we chose other menu options. The food was ok but the highlight for me was the iguanas! They are just as pushy as any pigeon or seagull and far cuter! Needless to say they got well fed! LOL
After lunch Wade, Brian and I headed out for our third dive on Buddy’s Reef. Our dive plan was to just swim out to the reef to take pictures...no big tour, just hanging out with the fish. It was AWESOME! We saw so much cool stuff...lots of eels! Wade tried to save me from what we thought may be a sea snake that was actually a fish! Who knew? We got quite show when this fellow decided to eat what he could pull out of a Conch...he attracted several fish who were interested in his leftovers. We hung out in a big school of fish for a while then saw a Peacock Flounder on our way out. Very cool dive.
Just as we were getting ready to head out for a lobster dinner we heard folks shouting ‘Whale!’ from the dock area and came to see what was going on. Sure enough a pod of Whales was passing through between the islands. Apparently this is a very rare thing and it had been 7 years since any had been here. I got a few pics but they were pretty far away.
Dinner was the perfect end to a terrific day...absolutely delicious food with good friends and lots of laughs.
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