Diving on Carrot Rock

As yesterday was rainy and cloudy, today was warm and sunny.
First order of the day was one of my favorite dives of all time here, Carrot Rock

Our fearless divers led by Simeon and myself were off/ We jumped in on the windward side and the boat picked us up on the lee side....

Lots of schools of Chubb Fish around...

and baby fish...

The barracuda did not like us being in their territory today, they kept a very close eye on us throughout the dive. Many of them...

Our divers going down...

Then the action started, we had a Nurse Shark and a lobster at the same time! There was also a coral banded lobster in between them, but no pic of that...

There were lobster everywhere....we must have seen a dozen...

Simeon was giving me the signal for shark off in the distance here, but I missed that one...



Another cute pic of a barracuda...

Lots of Yellow Fish....

3 beautiful Tarpon circled around us...



Another angle of a lobster...

and surprise, another close up of a lobster! He was pretty!

We saw about 4-5 Sharks, Nurse, Simeon says he saw a Bull Shark in the distance, and I saw a Reef Shark at the end of the dive. Altogether successful!
We spent lunch at Deadmans Bay on Peter Island before going to join the other 30 divers who were diving the wreck of the Rhone this afternoon....We almost need a schedule for who dives when between the dive shops on these busy weeks... Our wind had pretty much died down by now, so we took the opportunity to troll up the outside of the islands towards Virgin Gorda. Our count was about 3 Barracuda, a Horse eyed Jack and also a Mackerel that took himself off as we went to land him.

Here are my guests watching the fishing lines and the sunset, (for Joeys mom!)

And as most of you know, our son and daughter in law in Australia are having a baby at the end of January. They sent me this picture, and I thought, "Karen is really not that large"

and then I saw this picture and wondered if it was really Karen who was pregnant or maybe it was Wade!