Dinosaur Games.

The first dive spot today is called the Virgin Blue Hole, a few of us joked that it wasn’t going to be a virgin after we dove into it… it was really dirty humor.  So we dove to the mouth of the cave and I glided down like always and we all entered the cave together.  As we got further into the cave I was starting to feel a bit dizzy and just weird, that’s when I looked at my depth and noticed it was at 105 feet… deepest I have gone.  At deep depths people can get what’s called nitrogen narcosis that makes you acted a bit drunk, this is what I was experiencing at 105 feet in a very dark tunnel.  All of I sudden I figured I was narced and started giggling underwater and I couldn’t control myself.  When we had to go back through the tunnel I got a little nervous and wasn’t sure if I could handle getting narced again but there was no choice!  Ill have you know I made it through safely and acted like an idiot for the rest of the dive.  I was constantly grabbing onto Christi and Ali’s tanks and they would take me for rides around the reef.  At one point I took my reg out of my mouth and started acting like a dinosaur, shortening my arms, gnashing my teeth and making the dinosaur noises.  Everyone was just cracking up and I laughed so hard underwater that I started crying and then my mask would start to flood and then I would inhale salt water in my nose.  Christi couldn’t stop laughing when she heard me laughing underwater so it just turned into one big laugh fest.  Ali and Michelle just looked at me laughing and shaking their head.  Other than all the goofy stuff I did underwater I did get to see a crocodile fish, which was extraordinarily cool because it honestly looks just like a piece of coral.  When Michelle pointed it out all I could think was cool, another piece of coral… then I noticed it and it was awesome!  At our safety stop I did 5 minutes instead of 3 just to be safe because I was acting so stupid.

We all gabbed about how awesome that dive was as we made our way to a beautiful beach.  This beach looked like it came out of a travel magazine… white sand beaches and perfect blue waters.  It was so insanely beautiful, I felt so honored to be able to be in such an amazing place.  I enjoyed my veggie wrap that always tastes delicious and then went for a walk along the very small beach looking for shells that caught my eagle eyes.  I found lots of shells and bug’s that like human flesh… not so much fun.  After shell collecting I found a rope swing and the guy from the first day Nick tried to climb across a wobbly branch and swing.  He failed horribly and fell into the water halfway across the branch even when he was on his hands and knees.  With my climbing skills I was confident I could make it to the rope swing.  I climbed onto the branch, stood up and walked across it, arms out and taking very careful steps; trusting my feet like always.  I made it to the swing, which didn’t surprise me at all and then took the leap… the water was a little too shallow but oh well.  I floated around in the water some more before we headed off to our new dive spot.

So perfect

Amazing waters!

Failure...

This is how its done.

Tarzan here I come!

Blue corner is how we end the day and we get to use the reef hooks again!  The current on the surface was so strong we had to hold onto the buoy line while descending.  Even below the surface the current ripped us back, we literally had to crawl across the rock to get to the shoulder to hook in.  By the time we got to the corner and hooked in everyone was low on air from swimming so hard, you could kick as hard as you could and wouldn’t move.  A good thing about the dive though was that there were tons of sharks!

We got back on the boat feeling completely exhausted, most of us slept on the boat.

Seeing as this is Christi’s last night we booked a night dive on a wreck with Jesse and Matt as our guides.  Jesse started off the briefing by telling everyone on the boat that we are not allowed to penetrate the wreck… Christi and I were the only ones to laugh our butts off.  Christi and I were the first to descend and we were pretty much alone for half of the dive until Matt found us.  That is when all the goofing around started, we turned our lights off and snuck up on Matt and I would cling to his tank and use his as a ride around the wreck.  The coolest thing was the phosphorescent and watching the tiny shrimp poop it out, all the water was glowing that night.

We proceeded our night with going to the Taj and danced the night away until 1 am and then we headed down to the beach for a quick midnight swim.  I have no idea where the night went but I got home at 4:30… I wasn’t to proud of my sleeping habits that night.

Great day of diving though!