Yoda-X
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We just arrived a few hours ago. TBR isn't near other restaurants or touristy stuff. It IS pretty secluded with a gorgeous beach. The staff here is amazing. Most of them are already calling us by our first names. Because we got in a little late, the cooks made us a late lunch to go along with our welcome drink.
We we checked in at the dive shop and I must say I am very impressed so far with Darin, the manager. We filled out all the required paperwork, then he gave us a tour, thorough briefing on the do's and don't see and schedule. For the diving we meet at the shop around 815 and will go out for 2 dives starting at 845. Unless there is a specific reason to come back, we will stay out for both dives. Back around 12:30 for lunch, then off at 1:45 for the single afternoon dive. Your gear will be setup and broken down for you each day.
The he accomodations are nice. Far from 5 star, but clean, nice and you are treated like royalty by the entire staff. NITROX is 32% and they run it very professionally.
I will ill start another thread later with this info and will try to update it a couple of times a day.
---------- Post added August 10th, 2015 at 06:00 AM ----------
AAhhhhhh, what a beautiful morning. We woke up at 7 and went for breakfast only to find out it was actually 6 here (forgot to take my phone off airplane mode) and there was fresh coffee. So at least I got a little caffeine fix. I have our professional camera here to film all the stuff above water, and the gopro with filter for everything underwater. Internet isn't super fast here (but not slow either) and we have wifi in our room so will do my best to upload some pics and maybe a short video or two.
Well, off to breakfast and our 2 morning dives. Will check in later.
---------- Post added August 10th, 2015 at 04:28 PM ----------
Awesome day. We only got in 2 dives (our choice) today, but they were the best dives I have ever been on. We did the Labrinth and Barracuda. Average bottom time was an hour. We saw eel, grouper, barracuda, lion fish (killed 3), corrals, fans, a million colorful fish and more. At one point we had an eel come right up to us and we had to push it away with the camera. I will post that video up when we get home. The dives were unbelievable. We also saw a dozen nudibranches (sp) that we so beautiful. My next big expenditure will be a quality camera so I can get better pictures.
More tomorrow
We we checked in at the dive shop and I must say I am very impressed so far with Darin, the manager. We filled out all the required paperwork, then he gave us a tour, thorough briefing on the do's and don't see and schedule. For the diving we meet at the shop around 815 and will go out for 2 dives starting at 845. Unless there is a specific reason to come back, we will stay out for both dives. Back around 12:30 for lunch, then off at 1:45 for the single afternoon dive. Your gear will be setup and broken down for you each day.
The he accomodations are nice. Far from 5 star, but clean, nice and you are treated like royalty by the entire staff. NITROX is 32% and they run it very professionally.
I will ill start another thread later with this info and will try to update it a couple of times a day.
---------- Post added August 10th, 2015 at 06:00 AM ----------
AAhhhhhh, what a beautiful morning. We woke up at 7 and went for breakfast only to find out it was actually 6 here (forgot to take my phone off airplane mode) and there was fresh coffee. So at least I got a little caffeine fix. I have our professional camera here to film all the stuff above water, and the gopro with filter for everything underwater. Internet isn't super fast here (but not slow either) and we have wifi in our room so will do my best to upload some pics and maybe a short video or two.
Well, off to breakfast and our 2 morning dives. Will check in later.
---------- Post added August 10th, 2015 at 04:28 PM ----------
Awesome day. We only got in 2 dives (our choice) today, but they were the best dives I have ever been on. We did the Labrinth and Barracuda. Average bottom time was an hour. We saw eel, grouper, barracuda, lion fish (killed 3), corrals, fans, a million colorful fish and more. At one point we had an eel come right up to us and we had to push it away with the camera. I will post that video up when we get home. The dives were unbelievable. We also saw a dozen nudibranches (sp) that we so beautiful. My next big expenditure will be a quality camera so I can get better pictures.
More tomorrow
