Bequia - Dive Adventure

We've been quite the social butterflies the past week. Seems almost every night we have had people over to our boat for dinner or happy hour, or have met someone ashore for dinner and drinks, or have gone to someone else's boat. Last night our friend Mary made a fantastic lasagna and we joined up with Dave & Sue on Pirates Hideout to spend the evening on Mary & Jon's boat, Tabascocat. We had a fantastic time with those two couples and since we're all stuck here until the weather lets up (it's been blowing hard and outside the harbor the waves are pretty rough) we'll probably all get together again sometime this week.

We did a two tank dive this morning. Most of the dive sites in Bequia are too far to get to by dinghy so we made the decision to go with a dive shop that had been recommended to us. Laury from Bequia Dive Adventures arrived right on time to pick us up at the boat. Judging from the waves crashing on the rocks along the shore as we pulled up to the dive site, we're glad we didn't attempt it in the dinghy -- conditions were too rough even for the Beast. The first dive, called the Boulders, was really cool. There was so much going on I didn't know where to look. It's the kind of dive you wish you could do three or four times in a row, so you can spend time hovering and watching the minute details of the sea life. The second dive was a drift dive which is where the boat drops you off in one place and then the current propels you forward and the boat picks you up downstream at the end of the dive. It was kind of cool to just be pushed along by Mother Nature (kind of like being on an undersea people mover) but it was a little hard to maintain control and I kept bumping into Kevin's fins and getting kicked in the head! So it took me the better part of the dive just to learn how to slow myself down. But once I did I was able to take some photos (I was carrying the camera for the first time ever) and I also managed to snap the rare photo of Kevin in his scuba gear.