Sal is one of our hardest working guests and he had a great week of diving.
We wanted to share this with all of you. Check it out !

The highlight earlier this week was the find of “OctoPatty”  I thought Patrick’s octopus at Eden Beach was pretty cool but OctoPatty topped it.  Patrick’s octopus was large and out moving around, changing shapes and colors but Patty found cutest little octopus in front of our condo.  The body of this this guy was about 2″ (6cm) long and he kept raising up trying to convince us he was a big bad octopus.  I have know idea how Patty spotted him but it was way cool.

I would give you another tease from this morning’s dive but I can’t wait.  We dove with dolphins.  Mirjam spotted them as we were going into the water and we were fortunate enough to get out to them before they passed by.  Not sure how many there were, there were several waves, but I didn’t realize there were 5 in this picture until we got home and put them on the computer.

yesterday they saw a nurse shark again with the Emma East Coast dive

Thanks for the pictures Robert & Ilse.

East coast boatdive 03/11/2011 , guided with our Instructor Emma.

Thursday afternoon, me and my group of eight are ready to make a fabulous east side dive!
We hop on board and i start the briefing. I tell the guests what they can expect, and how we’re going to do the dive. I also show them the signs of the different kind of fish and creatures we might see. Quite often when i do briefings i show them as kind of a joke the sign for shark, today i forgot about that (stupid me).

We all enter the water by doing a backroll. When everybody found their buddy we’re decending into the white hole.
As soon as we’re swimming along the beautifull wall we are greeted by tons of big tarpon that are just hanging out there, spending their afternoon. Everybody is enjoying the wonderfull surrounding we’re in. The corals on the wall in the white hole are magnificent. Suddenly everybody is looking on top of the wall. A wonderfull eagle ray elegantly flies by. Once we reached the end of the hole everybody is lining up. We’re going over to the shallow area to find our way to the drop off.

After a short swim we reach the drop off. I’m still counting if everybody is still folowing when i see somebody waving to get my attention. There it is… the sign for shark! The fist ting i’m thinking is: yeah sure!! Funny guy haha! But then i see he is pretty serious about it. I’m going over and my heart is skipping a couple of beats. There it is, laying under a little ledge. A nurse shark!
I do a little ‘happy dance’ and then show everybody this beauty. When everybody had the chance to have a good look at the shark we’re moving on!

Now the thing is, after something so spectacular it’s hard to keep the vibe going on. But this time the sea was i a good mood too! Turtles turtles everywhere. At a certain point you just could not count the amount in your vision. It had to be more than 20! Mostly big green ones! When i turned around too ask everybody how much air they had left, everybody was smiling in their regulators! Then finaly, just before we’re starting our ascent a small southern stingray passes by! That’s what you call the cherry on a pie!

We made our ascents and once we’re back on the boat, everybody is a little speechless. This dive was fenomenal! And once the first impressions sunk in everybody is exitedly talking about the wonderfull life mother earth just showed us!

 Pictures will follow !