Diving on the RMS Rhone again...

With very little fan fare and commenting I am going to let most of my pictures from this morning talk for themselves. We were up to wake up bells ringing and in the water by 730 AM. We had a very nice dive on the RHONE today, and I took the opportunity to go in a bit before everyone else so I could take some silhouette shots, which are about my favorite, although it is one way that digital does not do them justice. Film is much better.

one of my divers coming down...

Matt sinking against the sun...

I think Neil was just being goofy...



Coming around the compressor

Nice little turtle, with a prop mark of some type of damage on his shell as well...

My Rogues gallery of divers! I like this picture...

We saw lots of lobsters....

This permit posed nicely, but then turned his back as if to say "you cannot see me now"



Filefish, actually filefish. I called the Trumpet Fish File Fish in my blog yesterday...

My divers have done a few dives and now they are like poetry in motion...

Inside the deep part of the wreck...







Someones fresh new weight belt that we did not bother to pick up off the deep end....

This turned out very well, looking up at the Permit...

We came across Simeon and our two certifying divers near the end of the dive....

And a nice crab sitting inside the wreck.

Yes, it was a very nice dive!! Then we made Eggs Benedict for breakfast, and Hash browns (yummie!) and then the guests were off on a marathon tour of Salt Island. These pictures following are all courtesy of David, cuz believe me, I did not climb up the hill to the geocache!
I hear some walked the wrong way around the pond, and some sprinted right up the hill....

Our geocache is still safe and sound, if not looking a little moldy from being there a few years!



We have a nice picture of the non diving ladies on the top...they don't get in too many pictures!

And a whole group shot down by the dock on Salt Island...

Then it was a snorkel, at the Sphinx, and the next plan was a slow motor to the Beatta to dive, where our twosome worked diligently on getting there gear together in record time (sort of!)

The twins took the opportunity to have a nap....

And our two newbies are now certified and a great dive was had by all. We took off late this afternoon sailing up to the Baths and had cocktail hour under sail. We are having perfect sailing weather for Promenade lately....

There are a few boats at the Baths tonight, so we watched the sunset....

and then watched a moorings dinghy at the Baths that had the plug out and the engine under water. They must have left it there and gone on their way, as there is no moorings boats left at anchor here!