BVI SCUBA diving

It has been another good day on the boat, well except for spending like a thousand dollars on paint and varnish and tape just to make the boat look prettier!! They only came home with a few LITTLE bags.. Bazza was mentioning that he cannot believe how much the price of things has gone up since he came to the Caribbean. Join the club there!
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A couple more bottles for you. This is a close up of a German Mineral Seltzer bottle, that dates sometime between the mid 1800's to the late 1800's. We have found a couple of these over the years...

This is only the bottom of an very old square bottle, but it is so old the glass is brittle and is just crumbling in our hands.

By the end of the day we suited up and decided to see if Lisa still knew how to work her dive gear! I should have taken pictures of her attempting to get into her wetsuit (she says it is new and stiff!) but I promised not too! However, it was worth a chuckle watching both her and Bazza. I, of course, went in my swim suit and thought they were nuts for putting on all that rubber!!

This sting ray just sat there. He was big and not bothered by us at all. That is an old spike with a bit of wood on his back!

I have seen a few decent sized groupers diving the last few days. They are pretty tame too, it appears...

Three of us in the water, and we stuck together pretty well until the last half and then apparently according to Richie we came up in different oceans practically! I could see the boat in the distance...

Ah, they did come and get me after all!!

We have two neat bottles today. I love the square ones, and this is one is quite large. I was very impressed with it! The smaller one we have found two the same the last few days and it has a seal on it...



I believe it is P. Haviern. very rough seals, someone's private collection!

Bazza brought this up for Richie. It is an old piece of wood off a shipwreck. Can you see all the worm wood in it??? It was FULL of it!


We had an interesting experience with a bottle, probably a two hundred year old bottle that had gone in the water still corked and then coral had grown over it. When we cleaned it out, we realized that it had never been opened. The contents were BRIGHT yellow, like urine. And if you imagine how urine smells and multiply it by about a hundred times, that is what it smells like. Quite horrid. Whatever was in there obviously went really off. I thought Bazza should keep a sample, but he threw it all away!

Richard made dinner tonight and it was spaghetti BLT. Bet you have not heard of that before but it was good! He took onion and garlic, cooked it up with lots of baby tomatoes and fried up a pound of bacon, then mix it all together with pasta along with spinach in it! Thought it might be weird but it was wonderful!

Good night all..