BVI SCUBA diving

I must have worn myself out last night by posting such a long entry. I just could not come up with the energy last night. We made our way over to the Canes on Norman Island to continue our snorkeling safaris' with Brent leading the charge, and taking pictures of their better halves maybe? (just kidding!)

Cleverly done with the girls in the cave and the boat in the background Brent!



They are getting to be good snorkelers, they are. Some went from raw beginners...

They toured all the caves...

This must be pirate treasure they found in the Caves!



The blue tangs did their job while we were their of eating the growth off the bottom of the boat...now if we could just teach them to eat barnacles!

All enjoyed themselves immensely as you can see, probably most of all Brent with the little underwater camera!









After they snorkeled Brent even held the hose up at the back so they could shampoo their hair properly! Needless to say the girls love him!

While they snorkeled Simeon and I went over to Santa Monica Rock to do an afternoon dive. Wanted to get in the water, but did not feel like doing a SCUBA dive at the Caves...Go figure!

We saw many lobsters...

and conch, we went out to over a hundred feet, that is a big day here!

Nice Angelfish...

Simeon coming around the soft coral...

More lobster....

Horse Eyed Jacks wandering around...

Looking up at a barracuda on the surface...

Simeon again...

and more Horse eyed Jacks again...

We moved the boat around into the Bight as since the girls all had pirate shirts and patches on, we figured their may be some WIlly T participants after dinner...



My two pastas, shrimp and chicken pesto turned out very good tonight and I am really looking forward to having some fried up for lunch one day!

I know a few sallied forth to Willy T's, and there is pictures, so I will try and find them for tonight's blog entry. It has been a busy morning for me, while the girls snorkeled the Indians, I baked Quiches for lunch, Apple Streusel Pies for dessert tonight, cookies for lunch, got conch fritters ready for cocktail hour, made up a greek salad for lunch, and mixed up the marinate for chicken sate for dinner. That sounds busy to me and now I am quickly putting up a blog entry while we are sailing up towards the Baths for the afternoon!

I was doing a dive in the last few days off of White Horse by the Rocus on Anegada reef. The state of the coral there was HORRIBLE. I was inside the reef, so it is never as good there as outside, but truthfully, I swam around with my mouth open, looking at all this massive coral that had a kind of disease on it. Maybe someone knows more then I do...

We were up and moved onto a ball at the wreck of the Rhone bright and early in the AM, and some were diving before breakfast and then after breakfast as well...
I took my camera in on the second dive, and I am pleased to announce that there is really no algae bloom left, it is about back to normal!
The squirrel Fish were gorgeous...

The Permit was following me around...

The Horse Eyed Jacks were where they are supposed to be again...

along with a pair of angelfish...

and a lobster...

Watched fish being cleaned for a bit...

Great silhouette of a snorkeler...

And then I took some pictures of our certified and resort divers, all looking much better then some other divers we saw down on the wreck!













We planned on a sail over to our dock for lunch to re provision and fill up with water, since these guests are not running the generator a lot this week, our watermaker is fighting to keep up along with the tank filling, plus our generator has been giving Bazza problems lately, and he has been fixing lots without getting a real definitive answer on the problem. Well about the time we finished our dive, it REALLY broke and he REALLY had to figure out what it was, so it worked out just as well we were stopping at dock, it gave Simeon and I time to run into town and he went to Parts N Power for parts and I went for provisions.
God damn is it hot on land! That is all I can say, and every last one of us was glad to get back out on the water this afternoon! We sailed and trolled up past Beef and the Dogs,
We had cocktails

and we circled every out cropping of rocks twice I believe and all we came up with was a half mackerel, a barracuda and we donated about 6 rigged ballyhoo to the fish!

Sunset was pretty at Mountain Point, but so were the mosquitoes and flies!

THe guys went for a bit of a troll to see if they could grab some bait just before sunset and nada....

They are out there again tonight after dinner trying. For the first time since the beginning of the season my feet HURT getting into bed tonight, so I know that I ran my ass off today!
I hope tomorrow is a bit slower...