Went for a nice SCUBA dive...

Hey! I am back...with something other then maintenance pictures! But first a funny story.
Bazza and I spent the day in town yesterday, banks, marine services, trade, boatphone, grocery stores, you know all the fun places! He picks up our renewal license from Marine Services for the boat. When I found him at the car, he says "They messed up on the license, it says we only need a boatmaster rating #2 and a deck rating (which is basically nothing) to run the boat and it is good for 5 years" That was a surprise to me, as that is someone with not a ton of experience to run a boat the size of Promenade, and certainly different then what it usually says on there. Off he goes to the store and I proceed to read out new Marine Services License.

By the time he comes out I am rolling on the floor laughing like crazy. There was more wrong then right on this certificate. Apparently someone could not copy well from the last license.
These items were wrong:

1) Boat name spelt wrong
2) Our gross tonnage was apparently 6 tons
3) Our length is apparently 52 feet
4) They inspected us at Nanny Cay (!)
5) We could only have ten people on board
6) And the manning levels were off...
7) No, we could not be only inspected once every 5 years...

All that, though bad enough was not the best part! I suggested to Bazza that he may want to go right back in to Marine Services as we were only certified as a class 4 vessel. Which basically meant that we could only go 3 miles from safe harbour, in GOOD weather and ONLY in daylight hours!!!!
I did not think it was going to be that handy for a charterboat that aspired to go somewhere further then the channel markers coming into Road Harbour (as long as there were no clouds in the sky!!) never mind staying out overnight!!
And, you wonder why we feel like we are hitting our head against a wall over and over some days?????
Of course when we returned "the girl who types them up" was out to lunch (does not matter what time of the day it was, believe me!) Bazza just asked for a highlighter and gave it back to them. He had mentioned something about tearing it up in there (in frustration) but managed to keep himself in check.
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We piled on a bunch of groceries (and managed to get mostly everything we wanted by going to 5 grocery stores....) and WE WERE FREE!!!!! Time to leave dock!!! We sailed (ha, we weren't on charter, not a chance we sailed....) and went over to Salt Island where the anchor was barely down and I was in the water. Only to be greeted by your friendly neighborhood barracuda. I snapped this as soon as I jumped in. He actually startled me.

We see him often here and he likes coming right up to my strobes. I have seen him so much though that I figure he is harmless...

Something I don't spy much when I dive during the day here is a Decorator Crab. He did not like me taking pictures of him with the sponge on his head and was trying to scurry away from me...

Other then that, all the usual suspects were there. A spotted Eel,

Several little lobsters...

A Hind...

The nice little turtle that lives up in a cave at ManHead point and he sat ever so patiently while I took his picture....

Found several Tulip Shells...

An upside down jellyfish and another crab...

My friend the barracuda not liking when I got close to "his" boat again...

A Flamingo Tongue...

An Arrow Crab...

I did not come up until I had to. Richard and Bazza looked like they had been caught doing something naughty, but I think they are sneaking in some more maintenance work when the girls were gone!

A nice little sunset looking down the channel...

This was so cute, Richard was singing "that's amore" to Lisa....aaaawwwww!!

We really pretended we were on charter and barbecued our steaks last night (off charter we tend to do them in the galley, as you know, we would have to clean the barbecue otherwise!) Riteway has some wonderful little Rib Eye steaks that I absolutely love in the meat section, just a bit of montreal steak seasoning on them, and they have enough fat to make them tasty as can be, just in case you are looking for steaks to barbecue while down here....

It is my sister's 40th birthday today! Happy Birthday Syd and welcome to the age that everything falls much more then it already has, and doubly so as everything becomes much heavier with all the weight that piles on the body now! Glad that I will not be the only female in the family now with that pleasure.... I was helpful though, for her Bday, I sent chocolate!! (only because I could not find somewhere that would deliver margarita's!)
Got to love Costco, I can still be happy shopping there even from the islands...