Jan 13

Our morning dive was at Te Amo Beach which is literally across the road from the airport. You can view a panorama of the beach here. The beach is also a nesting area for turtles and you can watch a video of baby turtles heading to the sea here. Our dive was pleasant. Few divers come to this site.

We came on a Spotted Drum (top-left) that was not hiding under some coral, which is unsual. The fish to the bottom-left is a Filefish.

Our afternoon dive was in front of the Bellafonte. We entered the water using the stairs off the dock. You can see the stairs in photo to th right. The dive was OK but nothing special. What happened at the end of the dive was pretty funny.

After being out over the reef for about an hour, Linda indicated that she wanted to return since she was getting a bit chilled. We headed back to the Bellafonte and eventually saw the dock sstairs and continued swimming under water without any surfacing. As I was approaching the ladder, I felt someone bumping against my back and then saw a bikinied woman's butt and then wild thrashing. Several seconds later I saw her franctically running up the stairs.

Linda, in the meantime, was away by perhaps 10 feet or so and saw all this play out. She saw the young woman swimming backwards as I was approaching the stairs. The woman suddenly ran into me and panicked, flailed about and then ran up the stairs. As we were coming up the stairs, the woman approached us, and with a smile on her face said that she thought that she had encountered a large fish. We all got a good laugh out of the incident. Linda said that while she was watching all this play out while under water, she was actually laughing while still breathing through the regulator in her mouth.

Our daily birds, as seen from our balcony. To the left, a Tropical Mockingbird and to the right, a Bananaquit.