Jason trained us in commercial fish stock surveying, and, by using spot the guard dogs coconuts as a target, how to spear fish safely with minimum air consumption.
On the Monday we returned to the island it was clearly a priority to make sure that all the essentials were still functioing properly before we started the actual scuba diving.
Ruby and Paul - making sure the hammocks were still fully functional
Then later during the Monday afternoon we had an absolutely amazing dive.
As you can see below I have now moved on to being able to confidently photograph moving fish, without chopping off their tails or heads in the shot.
During Monday afternoons dive I was just plain lucky to be center stage, when a shoal of Atlantic Spade fish navigated around us. I think they were genuinely inquisitive as to who or what were we.
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| A shoal of Atlantic Spadefish - not seen often |
I also managed to capture a moving Pork Fish. Now this did surprise me. I thought I had only captured the back half.
And then during the same dive we came across this sleepy head. This nurse shark, continued sleeping like a baby on the sandy bottom even though it was surrounded by 5 divers at one point.
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| One very sleepy Nurse Shark |
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| Spotted Trunk Fish - A little shy |
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| How to properly spear a lionfish |
As to our divers, clearly their confidence had increased as can be seen from this photo of Paul managing to pull off a dance move or two underwater. :-)
This was obviously counterbalanced by the cool dude approach of Simon who plainly looked calmly pleased to be back in the water.
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| Simon looking for pleased to be being back below SWL |
And then when we got back to the island before the evening meal I was treated to the best sunset ever.
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| Good for the Soul. |
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