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firstdive2005
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Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had my last dives today. The dose of joy I received today will last forever.
Four days ago my father in law suffered 3 heart attacks while in surgery. He has made an amazing recovery since. In the meantime my wife went home. I'm evil. I stayed and dove, albeit with my wifes blessing. What a babe.
So the days dives. Went went to Barracuda reef or Eagle ray alley. The current at first was easy. We all thought we where in for a treat. That lasted 5 minutes. The winds down there where howlin'. At first no rays, I spotted 2 toad fish, some big lobster. In the current I was hugging the bottom, might rethink that next time, I almost kissed a 5 ft Green Moray eel. I almost crapped my suit, my face was no more than 3 inches from it as I blew by. Thats fun, almost eating your reg. Then like a dream they started to appear. First 2, then 3, then 5. I was flying around at them, what a blast. Then I cruised back to the reef egde to hang on to some dead coral. This is where I had the best seat. 9 came out nowhere and just sat between myself and the others. My dive party was about 50 ft north of me. Some where a little to far from the edge to get back, the current was not swimmable. These magnificant animals just cruised up beside me and looked for a moment a continued on as if they where going downcurrent. We where mostly between 75-95 fsw. The last view was at 80fsw. We stayed there for 57min. I lost count of how many rays I saw. Another cool bit was when I was heading for my safety stop 2 cruised below me. At first I didnt see them, then bang I saw them only because they went over some stuff I was looking at. They are almost invisible from 50ft above. The next dive was Villa Blanca. This is a great spot right now for sea horses. Gabi was all braggy about the new humungous orange horse he spot earlier. Said it needed a saddle. Also a diver from papa hoggs spotted some frog fish. We could not find them. But Gabi is so amazing at finding creatures. I found 3 toads, a really nice juvy drum fish. Also at a fresh water vent two big king crabs where hanging out. At the 22 minute mark I was watching gabi, he was maybe 75ft away from me, he starts freaking out and pointing like hes seeing fire. The wild part is he swam at least 20 kicks to the horse, that is hugely far away. I can not believe he saw that thing that far away. It was the humumgous orange seahorse that needs a saddle. It is rather large gotta admit that. We saw another eagle ray cruising the sand for food. Curtis got close to that one. As a last dive it was perfect I was down for 72 minutes. Dove with a couple from the American embassy in Mexico, my new friend Denise from Hawaii, who has now moved to Coz. Also Curtis and Debbie from Winnepeg has been on a few dives with me. A young lady from Cancun rounded the group to 7 divers. Great people to blow bubbles with. I had so much fun with Gabi(db) on this trip, his joking around is a blast. Did one dive with Monkey as Dm and he is great also. I'm sad I missed diving with Eddy but gabi is greedy.lol.
Opal and Mau are such special people. The little dive shop from nowhere is like home to me. It's like one big family hanging out there. We all went out to Sonora Grill restaurant on Wednesday night. Makes leaving hard. Im at my hotel right now. Can anyone start an airline strike for me for a couple days. Quoting Arne ' I'll be back'. k
I had my last dives today. The dose of joy I received today will last forever.
Four days ago my father in law suffered 3 heart attacks while in surgery. He has made an amazing recovery since. In the meantime my wife went home. I'm evil. I stayed and dove, albeit with my wifes blessing. What a babe.
So the days dives. Went went to Barracuda reef or Eagle ray alley. The current at first was easy. We all thought we where in for a treat. That lasted 5 minutes. The winds down there where howlin'. At first no rays, I spotted 2 toad fish, some big lobster. In the current I was hugging the bottom, might rethink that next time, I almost kissed a 5 ft Green Moray eel. I almost crapped my suit, my face was no more than 3 inches from it as I blew by. Thats fun, almost eating your reg. Then like a dream they started to appear. First 2, then 3, then 5. I was flying around at them, what a blast. Then I cruised back to the reef egde to hang on to some dead coral. This is where I had the best seat. 9 came out nowhere and just sat between myself and the others. My dive party was about 50 ft north of me. Some where a little to far from the edge to get back, the current was not swimmable. These magnificant animals just cruised up beside me and looked for a moment a continued on as if they where going downcurrent. We where mostly between 75-95 fsw. The last view was at 80fsw. We stayed there for 57min. I lost count of how many rays I saw. Another cool bit was when I was heading for my safety stop 2 cruised below me. At first I didnt see them, then bang I saw them only because they went over some stuff I was looking at. They are almost invisible from 50ft above. The next dive was Villa Blanca. This is a great spot right now for sea horses. Gabi was all braggy about the new humungous orange horse he spot earlier. Said it needed a saddle. Also a diver from papa hoggs spotted some frog fish. We could not find them. But Gabi is so amazing at finding creatures. I found 3 toads, a really nice juvy drum fish. Also at a fresh water vent two big king crabs where hanging out. At the 22 minute mark I was watching gabi, he was maybe 75ft away from me, he starts freaking out and pointing like hes seeing fire. The wild part is he swam at least 20 kicks to the horse, that is hugely far away. I can not believe he saw that thing that far away. It was the humumgous orange seahorse that needs a saddle. It is rather large gotta admit that. We saw another eagle ray cruising the sand for food. Curtis got close to that one. As a last dive it was perfect I was down for 72 minutes. Dove with a couple from the American embassy in Mexico, my new friend Denise from Hawaii, who has now moved to Coz. Also Curtis and Debbie from Winnepeg has been on a few dives with me. A young lady from Cancun rounded the group to 7 divers. Great people to blow bubbles with. I had so much fun with Gabi(db) on this trip, his joking around is a blast. Did one dive with Monkey as Dm and he is great also. I'm sad I missed diving with Eddy but gabi is greedy.lol.
Opal and Mau are such special people. The little dive shop from nowhere is like home to me. It's like one big family hanging out there. We all went out to Sonora Grill restaurant on Wednesday night. Makes leaving hard. Im at my hotel right now. Can anyone start an airline strike for me for a couple days. Quoting Arne ' I'll be back'. k
