2-1-07
Turtle reef
Max 84ft 31 minutes bottom time
This morning we decided to go out to the big wall on turtle reef, if you swim out following the buoys it is about 150 yards out from the shore entrance so we swam the first 100 yards or so and dropped down to the sandy bottom at about 60ft. Here we found worms
garden worms or something like that and they dig tunnels in the sand to live in
.. they are long like over a foot and skinny they are in patches all over the bottom
like flower patches. So as you approach them they duck back down into the sand until you swim past. After a swim we came to the top of the main wall it starts in about 70 ft and you can tell by the huge mounds of corals that you are almost there. I found moral eels and had a real good time playing with a very curious baby sea turtle he or she joined up for several minutes of our dive and we hope the pictures come out well. We swam down a cut and out over the edge of the wall
so beautiful. The sea temps you with amazing tropical fish below you (100ft +) but you want to stay down as long as possible you must stay up a bit 80ft and above most of the time was where we stayed. Great dive many, many well everything.
Dive 2
Sting Ray City
What a fun dive this is a total must do for any diver who is not intimidated by marine life
cause those rays are all over you. I loved it so I took my place next to the DM the whole time because he was the one with the squid so all the fish and rays swam around and around him .. and me.
They took us out near a reef in shallow water told us to over weight ourselves to stay securely on the bottom. I was the first diver down and the ray came right up and said hello
got food. They would pass all around you rubbing their soft underbellies against you. The DM instructed us (if brave) to hold our hand out in a fist with thumbs up ..like a time to surface signal and the ray would think you have squid in your hand but due to the fact that their mouth is on the bottom your thumb stuck up stops them , and they stay right there so you can move them around and get under them and stuff before they swim away, like a ray hat. We stayed down for 43 minutes and place with the rays and one very friendly moral eel came out to play as well .. he hung around me for a while swimming up and down me but lost interest and went after the DMs squid container. I was ok with this because he was like 5 ft long
big boy. But a very interesting experience.
Loved this dive all 12 ft of it.
Dive 3 coming up in a hour or so
Kim P
