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Well, after a stunning meal with a great bottle of Fontarca Viognier, followed by a birthday pressie of a champagne cocktail at the fabulous Calypso Grill last night, we're not doing anything more strenuous this morning than writing the blog. One of us is suffering a little more than the other, but improving by the minute
So in an attempt to catch up on ther news, we'll think back to the day before yesterday. We did 3 dives on Tuesday. The first was called Eagles Nest. We dropped down to a relatively shallow plateau and swam off the edge to see a huge drop below us. The bottom wasn't visible, so it was probably rather deep! We stayed at around 30m for about 10 minutes and worked our way around the reef wall, which was once again so beautiful with lots of marine life, soft and hard corals and sponges. One of the divers who I believe hadn't dived for a while had a bit of a 'moment 'as we were coming back up to tthe plateau, I think due to being overweighted, and our dive leader, Jenny took him up to the boat leaving us to explore the top some more. Many pictures were taken, and some of them are even good enough to upload onto facebook!
The next dive was Wild Hammer, which was a shallow dive, and certainly had some excitement! Our dive guide managed to dispose of another lion fish, and as it was too small to take home for the freezer he left it on the sandy bottom. Two or three other fish then decided it was going to be their dinner, and we spent several minutes watching a yellow tail snapper playing with the deceased, and taking chunks out of it. As we moved off, we caught some movement a few metres away out of the corners of our eyes, and lo and behold a Southern Stingray appeared to see what was going on. He hung around for another several minutes so we did too. He had a 'friend' (hitch hiker?) fish who was stuck to him like glue, and swam on his right wing. It was amazing to watch them swim in perfect sychronisation. We did a bit of wikepedia-ing when we got back to the hotel, and apparently as the ray swims along the bottom he uncovers food that the hitch hiker then grabs. Eventually we noticed the rest of the dive coming back, so joined them for the last few minutes as we made our way back to the boat.
Despite the first two dives being amazing ones, I think the 3rd dive was the favourite for both of us A night dive on the wreck of the Cali, close to the shore of the dive shop was AMAZING! Note, that's not simply 'amazing'....it deserves the upper case letters! This was a birthday pressie from Bee's dive pals, and the cherry on the top was the lovely new Lenser Frogman torch from Dee & Alan. Thank you ALL sooooooooo much xxxx
Colours at night in the torchlight are more vibrant and 'real' then in the daylight, and the blue of the Tangs was incredibly intense. The biggest lobster in the world made an appearance (Linda and Spike would have loved it!) and we also saw two trumpet fish, one with a blue nose which we were told means he's hunting. We found a shy octopus as well, who did his very best to get even further into his little hole that he he was already as far in as he could get.
We then went back to the hotel and celebrated with margheritas and a delicious plate of food. I think we can both honestly say that we haven't had any bad food since arriving - it's all been extremely tasty, well presented and served with a smile.
Right.....time is getting short before we're picked up for our next dives, so we're siging off for now but will be back to tell you about Wednesday and today presently. Have a nice day now - we will!
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