Saturday, December 16, 2006

Turkoise again - take 5

Old habits, and old dive friends... Back to Turks with my original dive buddy who appears on this page, and our usual group of expert divers. Some wise and experienced friends said 'We told you so!' about my recent mishaps of this year, and our most senior excellent diver is back in the water at 70-some years of age, after having lost her husband last year. We all bow to her - she still beats me on air!!! And she can tell me of World War 2 stories still at supper!

The diving was cancelled twice this week because of the weather. But the good side is that we pulled in a few two-tanks at Northwest Point, which was great. I knew that it was doable, but I finally found out what it's like to be sick underwater! Hold your second stage!!! I also became the Bonamine pusher on the dive boat ;)

We were blessed by a humpback whale visiting us at Northwest Point. And bottlenose dolphins, twice, playing with the boat.

Got to dive with Fifi once and made it to French Cay. No Spotted Eagle Rays this year... but still great diving. Jojo the solitary Grace Bay dolphin was not around this time.

Oh, and I hate Suunto. I am going back to Oceanic. Those 10 minute deco stops are sooooooo annoying!

At the beginning of the week, the divemasters had mentioned that the big green moray eels were elusive this year... well we found this one 'Somewhere near Boneyard'... quite cooperative!

It was a great week again at Club Med Turkoise!