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DAY THREE:
SWIMMIN' WIT' DA FISHES

MONDAY, 16 JANUARY 2012


Our second dive was supposed to be a wreck followed by a swim across
(but we missed the wreck)

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Mario stalking Bar Jack stalking a stingray
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LOBSTER REEF:
Off Drill Hall - 30'-80' -
This inner reef is a great drift dive
with lots of marine life and
occasional sighting of stingrays.






Small anemone colony

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Saw another ray & an OCTOPUS!
The octopus is hard to see,
but if you look for an eye and then rings out from there,
you can see it.

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Find the octopus

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Juvenile French angelfish


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Also lots of eels, chain moray eels
& whitespotted sea snakes.



Golden chain eel

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A decorator crab [above]




An arrow crab [left]


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It just now poured buckets and rinsed my almost-dry dive skin.

Ed's 80-year-old father is not doing well on his heart surgery,
so Ed was called home by his family.

Most of TEAM MANTA attended the Manager's party & buffet.
There was a band, more of those delicious crab cakes,
rum punch & fruit punch.
I had the grilled Mahi-Mahi and it was excellent.
There was salad, coleslaw, beans & rice & steamed veggies.

Ed was preoccupied with updates on his father's condition,
and making arrangements to fly back to the U.S.
While he did not have travel insurance,
DAN TravelAssist did get him set up with the flights he needed
to get back to Iowa as soon as possible.

We've had heavy rain showers the last two nights;
the days have been partly sunny and warm.



DAY FOUR: DIVE ONE HERE


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