redive

hmc was so excited by our dive experience, we decided to go again.

unfortunately, the fine calypso dive we went out on saturday wasn’t sailing today from dunk, so we were forced with the only operation that was, that being the quickcat crew, which sails in a big motorized catamaran, and is a larger operation geared to a more sedate family type of experience. being in a much larger boat meant that you didn’t feel any waves or turbulence going out there, but we also didn’t go out that far. we went to sandy cay, which is nice and calm but not quite as far out onto the reef, and thus a little less populated, underwaterwise.

the other bad thing about this larger operation is that they were more overcautious about letting hmc dive after she was up front about her very very mild asthma, which hadn’t affected her at all on our saturday dive. alas, they wouldn’t let her go, and thus she had to snorkle. damn them. damn them to watery hell!

i did go on one dive, and through the miracle of the strongest prescription goggles they had on board, i was actually able to see down there! very exciting. i believe that there wasn’t as much to see compared to the reef on saturday, but i was able to see more of it, so it’s probably about a wash.

diving is very cool. but very expensive. maybe i’ll stick to snowboarding, just for my finances’ sake. if there were only more creatures flying around on the slopes…

Posted at November 29, 2004 4:37 PM