A calming snorkel AND SCUBA dive!

So, after I left you with my "rant" this afternoon.. (generally I reread them and delete them the next day once i have it out of my system, we will see what this one does tomorrow.) Some soothing activities were definitely in order.
We pulled up our anchor in Inner Harbor, and remember how mucky I told you it is in there? Well, Bazza said the first hundred feet of chain looked like something he has seen growing in sewage containers!

I spend a good half hour therapeutically trying to get it all off the deck! It helped..

Then it was a trip up to Penns Landing in East End, as we think this is going to be our new dockage space for the coming season! We had to make sure that we fit....

This winter we are so heavily booked that for time and sanity we need to turn around on dock, and with having our own dedicated slip, we never have to worry about "trying to get on dock" in one of the (expensive) marinas in Roadtown. Plus, they gave Bazza part of a workshop and a storage area RIGHT at the end of the dock! It will be very convenient for when the guests bring those three tons of dive bags with them for storage.

More on this later, when I do an "official" entry!
After measuring ourselves up for where to put lines and where to put sand screws (to keep us off the dock as the prevailing winds can be nasty in winter) we were off again! This is just a pretty picture of the clouds today...The most sun we have seen for awhile!

We were going to go over to Salt Island, but we were both dripping so much sweat that we opted to just go around the corner and drop anchor off of Buck Island. I had my snorkel gear on and was in the water within thirty seconds! No swimming for the last ten days in Inner Harbor (you saw the anchor chain, I better you would not swim there either!)
What is the first thing I saw in the water? A Grey Reef Shark! yep, it is a horrible horrible picture, as I just had my snorkeling camera, but it proved that it was a shark I saw anyways!

I snorkeled almost up to the castle on the end of Buck Island, and around the rocks. The coral is really rubbly, and it was cloudy, but I still enjoyed swimming. Went right up behind the rocks to see the pelicans.

There were quite a few schools of Blue tang around, surprisingly the color in this turned out not too bad.

Bazza went for a dive to see why the A/C was not working, and yep, exactly what he thought, a plastic bag was stuck in the intake, so he cleaned all those out. A hour snorkel and swim went a long way to calming me down and then when I got back to the boat he wanted me to help him change the transducer for the depth sounder, which was not working.
Yep. he wanted this done in the water. And yep, once you take the old one out LOTS of water comes in the boat. He told me to be quick! Down I go with wire and transducer in hand, he had it all bundled together so I could as soon as he pulled out the old one I would put up the bundles of wires and then quick as a bunny plug the transducer in. AND I was quick like a bunny, so quick that his thumb was stuck in the hole while I was trying to shove the transducer in and we had a tug of was for awhile, with me wondering why it was not going in any further! but finally success.
Then since I was already in the water I went for a 45 minute dive. I did not have a camera of course, but of note were the two spade fish that I could have reached out and touched and the slipper lobster sitting right out in the open! By the time I returned to the boat I did not care about A/C and enjoyed my several hours in the water! Life is good!
Here is a picture of the moon over Buck Island tonight and now it is dinner time.