HI all!
Just a quick one about diving!
We managed to get out yesterday - beautiful weather (the first sunshine for a week or so) and we were both very excited about this dive. Got kitted up and jumped into the water which was a bone chilling 19 degrees. Eek! That's cold! Descended down and headed around a rock face. The leader Larry signalled for us to let some air out of the BCD so that we stayed close to the bottom and we crawled over the top of a big rock, straight into a gulley called the aquarium.
Neither of us could believe our eyes, we were in the middle of over 30 grey nurse sharks, mostly over 2.5m long! Although they look pretty fierce they were very calm and were as interested in looking at us as we were in looking at them. What an experience! There were also turtles and rays in amongst the sharks. It was too much to take in! We spent about 46mins down there before we came up. One hour on the top (and a quick warm up!) and we were back in. This time we were to dive through an underwater cave approximately 100m long. The cave was pitch black in the middle and filled with large crayfish and black cod. The exit to the tunnel was the end of the shark gulley so again we sat and watched them. Wonderful. My exit from the water wasn't so good this time: problems with my mask meant that it kept flooding and so in the end I gave up and closed my eyes, holding onto James as we ascended. Really pretty scary and not a nice experience. Thankfully it only happened on the safety stop, it would have been horrific in the cave!
We both agreed that it was so good we had to do it again, so headed out this morning. Very different conditions - lots of swell and surge which made for difficult diving. Fish rock was again full of sharks, but we couldn't get into the cave because of the surge. The staff decided that it was getting worse so we headed to Green Island for our second dive. Dropped down to a nice sandy bottom at about 16m and swam around a bit. Saw big Bull rays, octopus and other things. Lots of wobbegongs again, very nice. Bit of a drama coming up when a guy came over to me and signalled out of air, so I gave him my spare regulator and we ascended together. Unfortunately he hadn't emptied his BCD so we fair rocketed up the last 6m or so. NOt the best way to do it but everyone was ok so no worries! I'm definitely getting a broad range of experiences at the moment!
So what now? We're going to get into Betty and see where we end up =)
Love to all!
Katy x
Just a quick one about diving!
We managed to get out yesterday - beautiful weather (the first sunshine for a week or so) and we were both very excited about this dive. Got kitted up and jumped into the water which was a bone chilling 19 degrees. Eek! That's cold! Descended down and headed around a rock face. The leader Larry signalled for us to let some air out of the BCD so that we stayed close to the bottom and we crawled over the top of a big rock, straight into a gulley called the aquarium.
Neither of us could believe our eyes, we were in the middle of over 30 grey nurse sharks, mostly over 2.5m long! Although they look pretty fierce they were very calm and were as interested in looking at us as we were in looking at them. What an experience! There were also turtles and rays in amongst the sharks. It was too much to take in! We spent about 46mins down there before we came up. One hour on the top (and a quick warm up!) and we were back in. This time we were to dive through an underwater cave approximately 100m long. The cave was pitch black in the middle and filled with large crayfish and black cod. The exit to the tunnel was the end of the shark gulley so again we sat and watched them. Wonderful. My exit from the water wasn't so good this time: problems with my mask meant that it kept flooding and so in the end I gave up and closed my eyes, holding onto James as we ascended. Really pretty scary and not a nice experience. Thankfully it only happened on the safety stop, it would have been horrific in the cave!
We both agreed that it was so good we had to do it again, so headed out this morning. Very different conditions - lots of swell and surge which made for difficult diving. Fish rock was again full of sharks, but we couldn't get into the cave because of the surge. The staff decided that it was getting worse so we headed to Green Island for our second dive. Dropped down to a nice sandy bottom at about 16m and swam around a bit. Saw big Bull rays, octopus and other things. Lots of wobbegongs again, very nice. Bit of a drama coming up when a guy came over to me and signalled out of air, so I gave him my spare regulator and we ascended together. Unfortunately he hadn't emptied his BCD so we fair rocketed up the last 6m or so. NOt the best way to do it but everyone was ok so no worries! I'm definitely getting a broad range of experiences at the moment!
So what now? We're going to get into Betty and see where we end up =)
Love to all!
Katy x
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