That said, we had two Plongee's this morning. My hubby was feeling fine today but his watch band on his dive computer was broken so we had to borrow a dive computer. He thought he could carry his but the minute you put something in your pocket, you end up forgetting about it or dropping it when you try and get it out to check the time and depth. He got a computer like mine but more modern with more settings but also in meters rather than feet. So as we are descending and my computer says about 20' and his says 179, I was a bit concerned until I realized there was a decimal point in there so we were in sync.
No worries getting in this time or getting down the anchor line. Two dive masters and one group went off to do the swim through of Cathedral which is a bit deeper. Since I did that yesterday, didn't feel the need to do it today and hubby didn't want to go that deep. Saw some morays right away. Then we just drifted for a long time over the reef. The reefs here are mostly volcanic rock. Not a lot of coral off Flic en Flac. there are a lot of sea urchins, lots of places for moray eels to hide and lots of scorpion fish as well. not too many anemones or anemone fish but we did find one on the second dive who didn't like our dive master at all. these two small fish kept attacking him to chase him away from their anemone.
So we did a 50 minute dive then to the boat to go in and have a surface interval. Left our gear on the boat since we were doing dive #2. A couple of newbies joined us for the second dive so the boat was crowded again but all the experienced divers went in the water first and then they took the newbies to a shallower spot.
There was a lobster hiding under a ledge but by the time I got close enough to take a photo, the sand was all stirred up and nothing would have come out in the photo. Some very large puffers or porcupine fish were swimming above and off the reef. haven't even seen them do that before. usually they are tucked under some coral. lucky enough on the second dive to see a couple of small nudibranches, a couple of well camouflaged scorpion fish who weren't happy that we spotted them. but they always look like they are frowning so how can you tell if a scorpion fish is happy or not. Some schools of squirrel fish in a crevice. a couple of slender, tiny needle fish. Then some schools of fish out in the blue but I couldn't tell what kind.
All in all, some good diving but we had to come up on the Sweet Lips reef at the end to avoid decomp so we're swimming over the reef at about 25 ' above it. not much good for taking photos or identifying anything.
We get our ride back to our apartment and take a dip in the pool to rinse off and cool off. Then we have our chicken for lunch. Unfortunately, both of us then fell asleep. when we woke, we left right away to go to the dive shop in Rose Hill. We knocked on the door at 4:58 and they were already closed. the gentleman let us in though and called his technician to see if he could fix my hubby's dive computer. it just needs a new strap. Even though it may only be about 8 years old, it's obsolete in that Scuba Pro doesn't make that kind any more. So they would have to see tomorrow if they have a band in stock.
Hit to grocery on the way home and found some Velcro so possibly my hubby's dive computer band is fixed now anyway, at least enough to dive with it. I think it will be an early evening again. When is it not when we're diving!?
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