Today was our last day of diving. We need to stay ‘dry’ tomorrow before we fly out on Sunday.
We did three dives today, the first was a ‘do over’ dive on the Hilma Hooker wreck. Instead of doing the wreck again we decided to dive the reef at that location instead. It was a great dive but had a rather challenging exit! It was rainy and windy this morning and the waves were pounding. Thankfully we had strong dive buddies on the shore to help haul us out when the waves were crashing us into the urchin filled shoreline! I will have some pretty colourful bruises as a reminder of our dives today! The good news is the cameras came out safely and no one got harpooned on an urchin. We saw some great Scorpion Fish on this dive! On our way out I paused to take a picture of a neat coral formation that looked like a bit of a bridge. I was pleasantly surprised to find a big puffer underneath. I signalled Wade and he came over with the video camera. Puffers are usually very shy and you only get shots of them from behind as they are swimming away...but we each took up position on either side of the coral and got some great shots as he was looking for an exit! We didn’t torture him long...just got a few shots then watched him swim away.
Our second dive was at the Andrea 2 site. We had some unique ‘shore support’ on this dive as we were greeted in the parking area by four wild donkeys. Two of them were quite curious and came right over to check us out. We tried to hire them to carry our equipment down to the water but they declined :-). This was a good dive where we met up with the usual suspects and didn’t get killed on the way in or out :-).
We took a lunch break and had a bit of downtime after these dives and Wade found a way to attach my big dive light to my camera so I could take it down on our last dive. I had been leaving the camera in the room on our night dives because I didn’t want to try and juggle my light in one hand, camera in the other...and then try to figure out how to check my gauges...just didn’t seem like a good idea! With the dive light attached to the camera rig made it easy to dive at night and get some pics just like I did during the day. Yay Wade!
Our last dive was on Buddy’s Reef and we went in just before sunset...so we started out in the light an then came out just after dark so we got to see ‘the changing of the guard’ so to speak. It’s neat to see the fish settling down for bed and the creepy crawlers coming out. I was surprised to see the vibrancy of the colours in the night pictures. I think they turned out pretty well for my first shot at shooting night pics! Now we need another dive trip to let me hone my skills! We’ve done several dives at Buddy’s Reef this week and it has been great each time. The current was quite strong tonight and that made for an easy first part and a more energetic second part of the dive. This profile works for me as I’m usually getting cold about half way through...so swimming a bit harder on the way home helps keep me warm :-).
We just finished a great dinner at Eddy’s...wish we would have found this place sooner...yummy food!
Now the tummy is full and we need to get to bed...we’re going horseback riding in the morning!
We did three dives today, the first was a ‘do over’ dive on the Hilma Hooker wreck. Instead of doing the wreck again we decided to dive the reef at that location instead. It was a great dive but had a rather challenging exit! It was rainy and windy this morning and the waves were pounding. Thankfully we had strong dive buddies on the shore to help haul us out when the waves were crashing us into the urchin filled shoreline! I will have some pretty colourful bruises as a reminder of our dives today! The good news is the cameras came out safely and no one got harpooned on an urchin. We saw some great Scorpion Fish on this dive! On our way out I paused to take a picture of a neat coral formation that looked like a bit of a bridge. I was pleasantly surprised to find a big puffer underneath. I signalled Wade and he came over with the video camera. Puffers are usually very shy and you only get shots of them from behind as they are swimming away...but we each took up position on either side of the coral and got some great shots as he was looking for an exit! We didn’t torture him long...just got a few shots then watched him swim away.
Our second dive was at the Andrea 2 site. We had some unique ‘shore support’ on this dive as we were greeted in the parking area by four wild donkeys. Two of them were quite curious and came right over to check us out. We tried to hire them to carry our equipment down to the water but they declined :-). This was a good dive where we met up with the usual suspects and didn’t get killed on the way in or out :-).
We took a lunch break and had a bit of downtime after these dives and Wade found a way to attach my big dive light to my camera so I could take it down on our last dive. I had been leaving the camera in the room on our night dives because I didn’t want to try and juggle my light in one hand, camera in the other...and then try to figure out how to check my gauges...just didn’t seem like a good idea! With the dive light attached to the camera rig made it easy to dive at night and get some pics just like I did during the day. Yay Wade!
Our last dive was on Buddy’s Reef and we went in just before sunset...so we started out in the light an then came out just after dark so we got to see ‘the changing of the guard’ so to speak. It’s neat to see the fish settling down for bed and the creepy crawlers coming out. I was surprised to see the vibrancy of the colours in the night pictures. I think they turned out pretty well for my first shot at shooting night pics! Now we need another dive trip to let me hone my skills! We’ve done several dives at Buddy’s Reef this week and it has been great each time. The current was quite strong tonight and that made for an easy first part and a more energetic second part of the dive. This profile works for me as I’m usually getting cold about half way through...so swimming a bit harder on the way home helps keep me warm :-).
We just finished a great dinner at Eddy’s...wish we would have found this place sooner...yummy food!
Now the tummy is full and we need to get to bed...we’re going horseback riding in the morning!
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