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I have a damned hard enough time keeping everyone's names straight, without you all suddenly changing your names!

Interesting how, the second you did the name change, our DM history for this trip erased the old name! It was fun diving with you. Sorry that we had to lose you mid-week, but I am very, very familiar with family medical issues changing plans without notice.

I was thrilled to win the Peregrine TX + Transmitter, donated by Shearwater, for winning the photo competition! Thank you very, very much!

Thank YOU! Your prize is awesome, and winning it totally blew me away! I'm still in shock, but I am researching how to add it to my Argonaut Kraken, double hose, before my next dive trip!

That happened after our return from both the Coz and Bonaire Invasions. Ain't air travel an adventure? I returned on the 24hour+ flight from Oz once, exposed to some exotic bug that the 9 family members of some fundamentalist cult in the row behind me was spreading. Im generally quite resistant...

The resort itself was a major disappointment, that is certainly true. Bait and Switch? Definitely. Over Promise, and Under Deliver? True again. Both descriptions fit the conditions we faced upon arrival. But.... the diving was great, the poor, mostly untrained staff did try their best with the...

Memories... I always wanted to dive the Great Blue Hole, but from where we stayed at Hamanasi, @20 years ago, it was an @3 hour boat ride, each way. I declined. While I might not ever dive it again, I found it a very interesting dive, especially as I am quite familiar with stalagtites...

Thank you! Yah, I was stunned that one of my images was picked by Pete on last year's Invasion, but I was totally blown away to win the Shearwater competition this year! It is not like I even pretend to be a photographer, of any sort! I have no illusion there. I just like to take pics that try...

Cute little guys! I shot a short video clip of one with my phone, but have no clue how ( or if is possible) to share it on SB.

I too had several pics I desperately wanted to upload on Friday, after our last dives. Pics that I certainly thought topped the toadfish pic. I had no clue that the toadfish was the ultimate goal. Even before the outage happened, the internet at the resort had become too busy to do so though. Go...

The point is, that despite whatever the negatives created by the owner were, we really had another great SB Invasion, and Dennis and Roxanne held everything together long enough for us to have some memorable dives, and SI together, and then to get out of there safely. So much more could have...

Thev From what I have seen, the resort's owner, operator, Hakim, lied to Dennis about what he could deliver. He offered us what he knew he could not deliver. That, to me perfectly fits the term, "bait and switch" to a T. Were there reviews available? Obviously, although I never saw them before...

My favorite memories of the 2025 SB Belize Invasion.... 🤨hmmmm.... First, has to be how, despite many complications, disappoinments, and unmet expectations, we enjoyed another GREAT SB Invasion! Next, the diving was awesome (Dennis and Roxanne do not take us where the diving is mediocre), and so...

You can know it would not be me. I usually will do my very best to be standing Behind a camera, rather than pose for pics.

This is my shot of my brother getting his shot, above.

On our way out today the pics of the octopus, which failed to upload yesterday, finally hit my phone. No longer for the contest, but I figured I might as well share them anyway ........... This little fellow was trying hard to hide in coral head, using a shell to hide behind. He fought me hard...

I started out to thank the Shearwater girls, Trisha and Allison for their great donations, and especially for the Shearwater computer I was awarded in the photo competition. That was quite a surprise!! The more I think about it, the more I realize just how much Thanks we owe Dennis, cardzard...

This little fellow was trying hard to hide in a coral head, using a shell. He fought me hard for that shell, before finally trying to peek out at me! edit: suddenly pics will not upload. :banghead:

I am familiar with this game. I am less familiar, though with the rules for this other game .....