Sunday Morning -- RAIN!

Well, you folks who were envying me for being in the sunshine while San Antonio was flooding can rest easy -- it's raining here. We're diving at noon anyway, but it's still a disappointment.

Yesterday we made two day boat dives and one night dive. The current was very strong on our second dive, and I surfaced a good distance from the boat and had to wait to be picked up. Might have been scary if I hadn't been between two other dive boats.

Most of my pictures this trip have been crap. My first dive I left my camera on the boat to keep from getting distracted, and I saw many things I wanted to take pictures of. Every other dive has been hard to find anything worth photographing. Also, the pics I take aren't looking good. The clear water is screwing with my settings (I know, poor baby!)-- either the flash won't go off because there's too much light or the flash overexposes the shot. I've gotten a little too close to a few animals (like a scorpionfish), but I didn't have the right lens on the camera and he ended up a little fuzzy.

We found a den where two 8' nurse sharks were resting and I got a few good pictures, but since I had to reach the camera down into the hole, I aimed too high and didn't get them centered. At least I saw them! They were beautiful, but they were the only sharks I've seen.

Last night we did a little dive off the shore of the hotel and saw a few little critters that were amusing (eels, pilot crabs, cleaner shrimp, and juvenile queen angelfish.) There was also a large cannon.

My knee was absolutely killing me -- We walked for about four and a half hours yesterday afternoon exploring downtown, after two boat dives and before the shore dive and I though I was going to lose the leg.

Well, gotta run. See you all!