BVI SCUBA diving

I was just looking at ticket prices to bring Bazzas mother over this fall. All I can do is sit here and say "wow" The Australian dollar is now worth quite a bit more then the US dollar! I think I could buy a small country for the price this trip is going to cost me!
Better book another charter! I don't know how many times I can say "just one more charter"

This is something you don't see very often. Bazza going for a dive. Although it was just not a dive, he was looking for something for someone. I always hate doing live diving when I am the one on the helm, as I am not as confident as he is that I will find him!


He thought he would make it easy on me and tow the dan buoy so I could know where he was. At which time he promptly brought it under the water and I spent the next 45 minutes scanning the horizon for a buoy that was compressed on the bottom...at a hundred feet!


A hundred feet is not my ideal diving space as I cannot stay down long enough to make me happy...so he just dropped me off on a reef outside near paraquita and I had a lovely dive with beautiful coral in 30 feet of water...

Look at how pretty this all was! And even a lobster thrown in there...














I came up and there was the boat right where it should be looking for me. Looking forward to picking up our guests today and going for some more diving since it looks like maybe we won't have 30 knot winds and big seas for a few days! What a concept...

We killed 8 alone at the anchorage at Salt, in quite a small area as well.


The one very good thing about this was we fed the dead Lionfish to the spotted eel. He ate him quite nicely, although they have already learnt and he ate the belly part of the fish only. There had been one living right above the eel, apparently they still need some help killing them...




A few personal pics I had not gotten around to putting up for my mom and that yet. "Not gotten around to" means not having an internet connection that can download or upload anything more then a basic email! I finally got up this morning and went into Dive BVI at the Virgin Gorda Yacht Harbour to do some work.

She was concerned about the weight of the water on the pool covering back in Murrieta, so Bazza fashioned her a pump that will keep the water off...



I have hit old person status, and I find more and more that I am needing to wear shoes on the boat which I don't like. Just developing some foot problems...


A humongous very good burger with everyone on it I had at Pussers last week! Although I could have done without the egg....



I went into Bobby's looking for herbs and this was the welcoming display that we get to choose from. It ain't no Abertson's let me tell you!


We have more then our fair share of winds and rains this week. Diving has been challenging, to say the least. Good thing these people did not want to sail as it is either too wet or too high of winds to sail anyways!

How do you like the Industrial Sized Permit that was on the Fearless this week? He let me take pictures of him for a long time...

I am so behind on all my blogs I think I am ahead! On the other hand I have a squeaky clean boat after turning around this morning.

Lets see if I can back up a bit and catch these up over the next couple days before we pick up again...

The most exciting thing about this drop off was it marked the END of my LAST fully crewed charter. From now on out it is more involvement from the guests and less from our end. It was time. I am old.

When we were anchored off of Spanishtown this week and the guests were wandering around on the very hot land, I jumped in the water to see what the coral looked like. I was so impressed with it when I took photo's of the boat that sank there a few months ago.
I am still impressed, but holy current! Newbies could get in trouble there!






A few other things i found under the boat..An anemone...


A sting Ray..


And I love this Brittle Worm and a Flamingo Tongue on a piece of coral...


These next three pictures are my great white hunter moment, without Connor's help I managed to get this Lion Fish which was in Salt anchorage. There are a lot there actually...


Without a camera though it was hard to stay down!


We cut his head off and tried to feed it to the Barracuda under the boat, but no such luck.


Found this in my car last week when I first came back...


And this was the Pelican sitting on the end of the fuel dock at Village Cay when we were docked there picking up a week ago...


More later, lets see if I can get a couple days forward first in the other blog!