At the end of the road is a place called Infinity Bay. We did our snorkeling and night dive right in front of it. We walked through and were real impressed. It's condos that you can buy or rent by the day or week. After lunch Kevin, Michael and I decided to walk down and have a tour. They are REALLY nice. Maybe when we come back here with the kids someday we'll try and stay there and dive with BananaRama.
As we left for our walk we met Marco who had us all set up for our diving, but informed us that he had been sick all night and wasn't going to be able to take us diving today. He went home to sleep so he could come back and take us tonight on our night dive. We had a freelancer from England named Neil as our dive master. He did a great job, but we missed Marco because we've all gotten so comfortable with him.
He took us to a place called West Bay Wall. It was a wonderful dive. I was really relaxed and we saw beautiful corals, fish, lobster. There was a spotted eel that posed for the camera, but unfortunately the underwater setting wasn't on so I don't think the pictures are too good today. We also saw a really big puffer fish, but we were responsible divers and didn't bother him to get him to puff up. I did watch him for about 5 minutes as we floated along.
After a 1/2 hour surface interval we headed the opposite direction to a place called Gibson Bite. It was a nice wall and we saw great stuff. We saw another turtle, but because the camera wasn't set correctly the pictures didn't turn out too well. We also saw two drum fish hanging out together and two lobsters hanging out together.
We got back and had some lunch and now I'm going to go get a little sun while Kevin has another snooze. See if I can get some reading time in.
Our night dive was another incredible experience. Marco was feeling well enough to take us. It was just us four with him again which is nice for a night dive. We went to the same place in front of Infinity Bay, but even though we were in the same spot it was like a new dive with all the stuff we saw. Lobster, lots of different kinds of shrimp, cool starfish, five lion fish hanging out together. We turned out the lights again, but didn't see the string of pearls quite so brightly, but they were still there. Then we swam in the dark again, but not for as long. We were down for 72 minutes, but it felt like 20 minutes. It was really fun. I'm glad Marco felt up to taking us tonight.
After cleaning up we went to the Thirsty Turtle and had some ribs. One of the girls came over to introduce herself because Carolina the waitress told her we were Mormon. Her name is Daphne. She remembered us from church. It was fun to visit with her. That's 3 employees we've met that are LDS.
We're all feeling a bit sad that tomorrow is our last day to dive. We've had an amazing week. I can't wait to add pictures to these posts to illustrate our week. It's been fantastic.
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