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HERE WE GO AGAIN!!
No kidding, friends, today was one of the best days diving ever! And I've done some diving. We got up this morning and went to the operator we are diving with at the moment. Ecomarine. They do not claim to have the fastest boat on the island, but they have passed a couple that do calim to be the fastest. Nice quick jet drive dive boat. Took us about half hout to get to the farthest point north on the island, Blackish point. I have dove this site before and it is by far my favorite. I could dive it daily and not get tired of it. It is also unique in that the ref drops off to a sand shelf which runs to a deeper reef ledge that again drops off to another sand shelf at about 120 feet. The bottom of the first drop id about 65-70 feet. It is washed out at that depth by sea erosion from millions of years back. As a result there are caverns and caves, swim thrus, and chimneys which rise vertically through the reef. We saw nudis, large midnight parrots, huge Rainbow parrots, snapper, grouper and all the little stuff one would expect to see. One seven foot nurse shark. Did get a few pics.
Had another fantastic surface interval. Capt. did find three whale sharks which we all got to see in the water. One had a 7 foot reef shark hanging around. Real neat raw open water adventure.
The 2nd dive was on a southside reef, Radar Reef. It was a good dive but it will be a few days before wife and I are over this morning's adventure. We don't plan to dive tomorrow. We run with a pretty high nitrogen load so we take a day now and then and chill. We are also looking into a couple of guys here with motor sailers. We may try to put together a five or six day sail/dive to Cayos Cochinos and return via Roatan. We'll see how it develops. We'll get back in a day or so.
Regards to all our swanper friends,
No kidding, friends, today was one of the best days diving ever! And I've done some diving. We got up this morning and went to the operator we are diving with at the moment. Ecomarine. They do not claim to have the fastest boat on the island, but they have passed a couple that do calim to be the fastest. Nice quick jet drive dive boat. Took us about half hout to get to the farthest point north on the island, Blackish point. I have dove this site before and it is by far my favorite. I could dive it daily and not get tired of it. It is also unique in that the ref drops off to a sand shelf which runs to a deeper reef ledge that again drops off to another sand shelf at about 120 feet. The bottom of the first drop id about 65-70 feet. It is washed out at that depth by sea erosion from millions of years back. As a result there are caverns and caves, swim thrus, and chimneys which rise vertically through the reef. We saw nudis, large midnight parrots, huge Rainbow parrots, snapper, grouper and all the little stuff one would expect to see. One seven foot nurse shark. Did get a few pics.
Had another fantastic surface interval. Capt. did find three whale sharks which we all got to see in the water. One had a 7 foot reef shark hanging around. Real neat raw open water adventure.
The 2nd dive was on a southside reef, Radar Reef. It was a good dive but it will be a few days before wife and I are over this morning's adventure. We don't plan to dive tomorrow. We run with a pretty high nitrogen load so we take a day now and then and chill. We are also looking into a couple of guys here with motor sailers. We may try to put together a five or six day sail/dive to Cayos Cochinos and return via Roatan. We'll see how it develops. We'll get back in a day or so.
Regards to all our swanper friends,
