Buoyancy, Chicken, Oops!

Markus showing off his buoyancy at Buoyancy Gardens

I woke up a little late and so had to rush to get my camera and strobe all set up before our dives at 9:30 am. The day of dives was at Bouyancy Gardens and Sanctuary. Shortly after I descended (about 10 meters) I noticed bubbles coming out of my strobe light. It was leaking as I could also see the o-ring sticking out. I signaled to Luer that something was wrong and surfaced. At the boat, Rene was there and he said he would rinse the strobe in fresh water and let it dry. Lucky he’s a photographer and knows what to do.

Crappy shot of octopus, but a shot.

The dive itself was a nice change of pace from the typical wall dives. Buoyancy Gardens is basically an underwater desert with patches of coral here and there. I see where it gets its name because it’s a good place to fine tune and check one’s buoyancy. I tried taking pictures sans strobe but they mostly came out crappy because my settings on my camera was all messed up. Diving at Sanctuary was cool in that Patrick spotted a fairly good sized octopus which was laying around.

Yum, tasty BBQ chicken.

I went out to dinner with Thomas, Markus, and Hamid. Hamid and I were craving bbq chicken a lot but Thomas didn’t eat any red meat. After looking for a while that would satisfy all, we ended up first eating BBQ chicken and then going to Trudi’s Place so Thomas could eat some spaghetti. Afterwards Markus, Thomas, and I hung out at Coco Vida bar for a few drinks until happy hour at Oops bar. It was Saturday, so it was disco night at Oops. There I danced a bunch and had a good time.

A frogfish lays uncamoflauged in hard corals.

- jason