Rainy Days and Monday’s always get Divers to go Down!

It was a blustery start to our day but that never stops divers!  It was a little choppy on the water but beautiful under the waves.  We did have a little current so the choice was made to do the barge drift.  We dropped down near the shark cave at baby barge.  We spent a little bit of time at the baby barge then drifted to new barge.  Its always fun to do the drift and get to see all the area in between.

Our next drift dive was set for Fantasy Reef.  Emily was doing her PADI HONU specialty, only taught at Island Divers, and boy did we have loads of Honu (Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles) to look at.  The current died down during our drift so we really got to explore the reef up and down.  This is one of our favorite dive sites because it is teaming with so much life.  We even had a big male Honu join our dive for awhile.  Some of the sightings on our dive were:  Octopus, Turtles, Eels and a huge Frog Fish.  It was an exciting day for all of us.  It’s amazing what you get to see when you ignore a little rain on the surface!

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Big Moray’s being playful

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Emily with Honu

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Huge Frog Fish

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Honu joining Dive. 

Amazing Divers:  Emily, Jake, Julia, Lily, Luke, Matt, Ray, Paul and Stephen!  Fabulous DMCs:  Luke, Steven and Tyler.

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Dive Sites:  Barge Drift, max depth 85 feet.  Fantasy Reef, max depth 56 feet

Crew:  Captain Joe (plays great music), Dive Instructors Mary and Ryan, boat crew Sam.