This morning the south swell was really kicking up and the diving on this side was crap. So we went to the North Shore and dove at Maliko. The first dive was a 45 min kickout and Ron didn't think I could do it, so I sat that one out. Connie told me that I could have done it except the last 5-6 min was not fun. The waves were coming up and slamming over her head, to the point she thought about putting her regulator in her mouth, and she never does that.
Our second dive was on the right side and we kicked out a long way, but the waves were not as tough. We saw a few things we don't see to often. The ell in the picture is a Mustache Conger ell, a first for both of us. Notice all of the shrimp around the opening. All of that pink is shrimp.
The turtle was just saying Hi to Connie. We saw five or six big turtles on this dive. The red mouthed fish is an Orange Mouthed Lizardfish. First time for him also. The other is a Crown of Thorns which eats the coral, but they are not sure it is really harmful. They think it may be like a forest fire. New coral starts to grow when the old is gone.
Getting back was interesting in that when we came up to check, we were on the opposite side of the bay from where we wanted to be. The water was very rough and since Connie and I had lots of air left we went back down and swam in underwater. Much easier that way. Probably won't be diving tomorrow since the conditions suck.
2 comments:
Leave it to you and Connie to get such awesome pics and still complain about the conditions :-)
Hope the rest of the trip goes wonderfully.
Lotsa Love,
rw
Your sister couldn't figure out who rw was. I got a big kick out of your email to her yesterday. Made me laugh.
Love you
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