Weekend Recap

Hi friends!!

Just wanted to drop a line on our little space in the World Wide Web to let you know we're still alive and enjoying ourselves!  We had an awesome weekend.  It's funny how our idea of a productive weekend has changed so drastically in just a few months!!  It used to be that we didn't feel we had accomplished much if we hadn't torn down a wall or remodeled a room or laid some tile...?  Now we feel it's been a great weekend if we've logged a few dives, had a smoothie (or two) and soaked in a few rays.  :-)  Such was our time this weekend.  We logged four dives in the past two days and both logged our deepest dives to date!  (P. at 124 feet and myself at 120 feet- Yeah!)

Yesterday afternoon we dove two shallow shore dives - the first off of Emon Beach and the second at a wreck off of the ski-boat area (my personal favorite dive site so far).  This wreck is awesome!  The life on it is absolutely breathtaking.  We had quite a bit of air left on our way back to shore so we stopped at another wreck closer in (and much shallower) and were graced with the passing presence of a spotted eagle ray!  So cool!  We're both doing really well on air consumption - both of these dives we lasted over an hour on a 3000 PSI tank and surfaced with air to spare.

Today we dove two deep wreck dives - the first was Barracuda Junction (didn't see any barracuda, I'll have to find out where the name comes from!) and the second was K5 Upright (named after the buoy it rests under).  Both were pretty awesome.  Barracuda Junction is laying on it's side, and K5 upright, aptly named, is sitting perfectly upright in about 120 feet of water.  I won't bore you with the dive details, but if you come visit and are AOW (Advanced Open Water) certified, we will definitely take you to these two!  They're fairly easy to find with the GPS coordinates and easy to tie off to also.

In other news, Peter and I hope to be boat captain certified on Thursday!  Note, this is different than the sailing certification which we also hope to get... just at a later date.  We have our practical tests (meaning we have to take the boat out with an instructor, and perform all the required maneuvers and passes) on Thursday.  We practiced docking the boats this a.m. and both did pretty well.  Our captain on the dives we went on this afternoon let me drive the boat back in after our final dive, and I was able to dock it just fine again.  This was a great test for me since the boat we practiced on this morning was a single hull - VERY maneuverable, and the boat we rented for the dives this afternoon was a dual hull - NOT very maneuverable   So we're hoping we pass our tests on Thursday... at which point we can rent boats and take them diving whenever we want!  :-)

Tonight we had the crew we dove with today come over for tacos.  It was a nice, laid back evening with lots of laughs.  Dozer even approved of them all and spent all evening laying in the middle of the conversation.  :-)  (He usually disappears when company arrives.)

Tomorrow morning is the "island fluff" weekly ladies dive.  :)  That being said, I best get some sleep so I can join them!

Hope you had a great weekend too!  Aloha from the big blue Pacific Ocean!