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| On the boat between dives |
This past weekend I finally went for my open water dive certification. After trying on our honeymoon, doing a "discover" dive over April break, and paying far too much money for all this, I finally did all the dives and dreaded skills tests and am now officially certified up to 60ft! The skills tests weren't too bad overall, except for the mask skills. Flooding and taking off your mask is no fun when you wear contact and have sensitive sinuses, but I survived it and can now do the fun stuff. Our goal is to get back to Saba where some of the top dive sites in the world are. I also was able to convince our friend CamTu to do the course with me, which did make it easier and more fun. There was also another spouse doing the course with us. It was a long weekend of skills on Saturday and 4 dives on Sunday (a bit much for 1 day). We did see a lot of really cool stuff though which helped make it more fun. We saw 2 spotted eagle rays, several sting rays, a baraccuda, puffer fish, a moray eel, several green turtles and hawksbill turtles, and of course a huge variety of fish. I definitely look forward to doing more diving. Owen is going for his advanced open water certification this weekend, which allows him to go to 100ft and gain more skills, I don't think I'll be doing that one ;)
Anyway here are many pictures from the dive, all but the first 2 were taken by Michelle de Villiers of Octopus Diving (thanks Michelle!), enjoy!!
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| With CamTu between dives |
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| With Jessica (another spouse) |
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| Southern Sting Ray, us in background |
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| Hawksbill Sea Turle |
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| Sea Fan |
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| Puffer Fish |
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| Angel Fish |
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| Baraccuda |
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| Huge Starfish |
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| Fish hiding |
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