Okay, off for another day of diving. After some delays, we headed out, again with only 8 divers on board - lots of space, and more shade for me. I'm trying to stay out of the sun completely, as the burn on my shoulders is actually waking and keeping me up during the night.

The ride out was promising, with waters looking much calmer than the previous day, and our boat ride only taking about 30 minutes or so. There were some newbie divers, so a local dive guide took 5 of us down.

The very first reef we went too was fantastic! Teaming with life, we saw huge stonefish, lion fish, scorpion fish, tons of eels, giant clams and again some great corals and fans. Annoyingly, we only spent a few minutes on that first reef, then spent the next 10 minutes or so wasting air swimming against the current over boring sand. Very frustrating since there was so much to see previously. We say a few more things during the rest of the dive, but nothing compared to those first 5 minutes.

After another chiapiti surface intervals, down we went for our second dive, this time at least following the current along the corals. This time, our dive guide didn't point out anything at all, seemingly just wanting the dive to be over - we missed TJ from yesterday :-(. So we were left exploring for ourselves and mostly took photos of interesting corals and fans, and a few cute anemone fish. At the very end of the dive, our dive guide pointed out a scorpionfish and frogfish, but then it was time to end.

We came back, and this time the first thing we did was download our pictures and videos. The results were so-so; the flashes worked properly, but we both had problems with our focus and exposure. I don't remember underwater photography being so challenging! But I guess as long as we can get 1-2 good photos per dive, we're doing well. Here's a few:

02/23/07 by bryan+elizabeth
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