Morning nomads. With fingers intact its time to go diving finally. It's off to the dive shop by 7 am so another early start. Why can't vacation days start at 9 or 10 in the morning instead of 6 am? Oh well off I go. At the dive shop its the usually and customary briefing on where were going and also a meet and greet of your fellow divers. During the briefing we are told we would be traveling back across the island back to the canal to board the dive boat. Ok no problem let's get going. As we get to where were diving its time to do a checkout dive for all the divers whom are new to the group so we can get our buoyancy worked out. Apparently the water here is super high in salt content and it shows with the extra weight. What I can't figure is why in the heck we are diving in two piece farmer john 7 mil wetsuits. I mean come on the water is 70 and I use this suit for diving in water that is at freezing temperature. They say you get cold with the thermo clines here. After the first dive I am praying for one of these cold spots. I am just about cooking in the 7 mil suit and I am only wearing the bottom half of it. I spend a lot of time trying to get fresh water in to cool me off. My camera wants to give me heck as well. Half of the lens on the scuba case is fogged up for the first dive so it makes taking pictures really hard. So I finally give it up and resort to simply enjoying the beautiful environment. There are tons of fish here. We cruse along the walls and across the sand beds. The garden eels are pretty cool but I want to see something that can eat me. After our surface interval and a snack we head from the Seymour canal to Seymour point. Here we find a few small cave where white tip sharks are resting. Really cool. Can I pet the shark fish? The dive master said no. Oh well. Maybe I will wait until he's not looking... As we head out into the blue we don't have to wait long untill a hammer head school shows up. Unfortunately I am starting to feel the effects of a cold today so I am unable to get deep to see them up close. It was really cool none the less. Finally, something meaner and nastier than I am....
