Yup, we're still here , we like it here and well our bags are all unpacked, so it seemed easier to stay than move on. We we're told that the diving here was not very good.....We think we got wrong information. For one thing the water is ridiculuously warm, 89/90 degrees, ok so the reef is not great, the book says from dynamite and cyanide fishing, but really it's still pretty nice. WARNING...it gets kind of dive centric from now on, so you might want to skip down to Carrie's more user friendly blogpost. By the way, we're at a different internet place with lights and no bugs so far, yeah for the small things that give you pleasure. Ok I know none of this stuff sounds as cool as I think it is, but try to imagine being underwater, not being able to communicate except with hand signals, how excited you are about what you just saw and having to keep it in until the end of the dive. And then seeing another really cool thing and totally forgetting what you were just excited about, but knowing your just as excited about seeing this new thing...and again not being able to tell anyone... until you see the next thing. Ok so in my mind, in order of the OH MY GOD , ARE YOU FLIPPIN SEEING THIS, I THINK MY BRAIN IS GONE ,SCALE. ( remember google pictures dad, it might help you visualize) WE SAW PYGMY SEAHORSES, yes plural, they couldn't have been more than an inch long, there was 4 of them on a fan coral and I think one was pregnant. Next were ribbon eels, again plural, they were beautiful, blue and yellow, again pretty small. Napoleanfish, a herd of about 10 or 12 of them, these fish are massive, over 100 lbs , about the size of a 42" flat screen. A juvenile lionfish, black and white and only about 2 inches long, a blacktip reef shark, lots of mature lionfish, scads of frogfish,stonefish. Just oodles of stuff we have never seen before on every dive.Ok one more thing mantis shrimp, very cool too. Ok boring myself , so going to go.
Love to all
carrie and glen
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