DIVING CANE BAY

We went diving with Cane Bay Divers the day before and enjoyed it so much that we booked another dive with them...this time to Cane Bay Beach.

We headed out to the car at 8:45am and going somewhere new...Cane Bay Beach. We were winding our way around the mountains (some scary and near miss curves you couldn't see around) and eventually made our way down the other side. (They REALLY need right hand right cars on this island and the weeds cut along the side of the road).

We eventually made it to Cane Bay and we were told to park in the parking lot at The Landing Beach Bar. We sat in the car in the a/c...it was so hot already this early in the morning.

I managed to see a lady on her phone walking back and forth along the road and we decided to get out and found out it was actually our dive instructor. I moved the car over to the beach by the restaurant at Sprat Net Beach

 We were ready to put our gear on right away. You see, if you have done a Discover Scuba in the last week, you do not need to repeat the class to do another dive. We get to go straight to the good stuff.

Our dive instructor today would be Calli (on the left)...Remember this picture? (Not my picture and belongs to Cane Bay Dive Shop)

We headed onto the beach and was ready to head out.

There were a few rocks when you get in and boom....I fell down onto my bottom. Oopsy! I should have known it was coming. I'm always danger prone. The hubby helped me up and out we went. I ended up with the same pair of fins I had the day before (which didn't match and the backs were different and one of them hurt). Calli was gracious enough to allow me to wear her dive boots and fins to prevent rubbing. That was so nice of her.

We were going out to the buoy and then go down but the water was really pushing us back so we just decided to go ahead and go under.

Once again Karl was floating up and would be pulled around by Calli during the dive.

Karl was going to get to experience what it was like to dive at a reef. I was excited to see what it had to offer.

Here's my videographer again...getting all the great footage for me to put together something interesting for you watch. 🙂

We started to see more and more coral and the excitement was building at what we might find today.

Black Durgon Trigger Fish

Sakari started with the macro pictures of course.

Karl still being pulled around so he don't float up:

This area had anemone's too:

We spotted a stingray with a friend:

Then we spotted a bunch of Garden Eels...this time Sakari would not miss them. She managed to get some close ups of them but they did not turn out the greatest because of the coloring.

She patiently waited on the sea floor, without moving, for one to come up...and it finally did.

She found an oyster:

We finally made it to the reef and it was really pretty and boosting with color.

More macro from Sakari:

Blackbar Soldier Fish hiding out:

More Garden Eels in the area: this was the most we've ever seen before...even when we went to Roatan and went diving at "Mandy's Eel Garden" there wasn't this many!

It was just an explosion of color.

At this point I have someone poking at me and I turn around and I see the hubby shrugging his shoulders, making a weird face, and then pointing at the GoPro. Oh no! It had stopped working. No clue what had happened. There really wasn't anything you can do when you're under water.

We continued on...

I look around and the hubby is GONE! Like I couldn't find him anywhere. I look at Sakari and I see her taking pictures with the camera except that it was pointing UP. What is she so interested in?

Yep, he was all the way up at the top of the water. He was trying to fix the GoPro. He later told me he told the instructor he was going up and pointed at the GPS. I guess she understood. Once he had fixed it, back down he came.

French Angelfish

Yellowtail Damsel:

Look at this beautiful Redband Parrotfish:

Harlequin Bass and friends

Sakari captured several pictures of a beautiful Coney Sea Bass. It seemed to have a fish attached to the side of it.

I noticed a really huge fish in the distance and I started swimming that way. Before long it was going over the edge at the wall. I hear a "tap-tap-tap" and that was my signal to GET BACK! We were not allowed to go over the wall and if this instructor knew me, she'd know walls petrify me most of the time. No worries Callie. I didn't get my shot of the big fish darnit. He was too fast for me. Can you spot it? It's right below my name.

More Groupers:

When Karl hit 1500, it was time to turn around. I still had 2600 on mine. Come on Karl, get with it. Control that breathing. 😂

\Banded Butterfly Fish

Blue Headed Wrasse:

Spanish Hogfish

Karl was still busy floating up and Calli was still holding on:

We spotted a turtle:

Squirrel fish

Then we spotted a group of Squids on the way back.

Black Durgon Trigger:

We arrived back safely and poor Karl had sucked up all by 500psi. I was left with 1600psi, Sam 1100psi and Sakari 2000psi (was Sakari even breathing down there???). We were down there for 43 minutes and went 36 feet according to the instructor. The water temperature was 84% at the bottom.

Aww, Sakari led Karl out of the water and we all praised him for such a great job he did.

It was a great dive and we were happy that we had booked a second dive. We are now currently up to dive number 26 under our belts and Karl has had 4 dives.

After our dive we didn't hang out for very long however, Karl found a coconut and after watching Aidan and Wesley break one open the other day, he thought he would be able to do this by slamming it against the concrete. It did not work.

Here's a video of our dive. I hope you enjoy it. If you don't, it's the hubby's fault. Just saying.... 😉😂

Now I wanted to mention...I worked for HOURS on this video and only after I finished and downloaded it did I open it up in full screen on my computer. Then...I noticed something that Sakari did. She never mentioned it to me. I never seen it happen...even though I was looking that way. The hubby was recording her and never noticed. But review the video and I noticed...SHE DROPPED MY CAMERA! She always has the tie around her wrist and I have no idea why she didn't at that time. It dropped to the ocean floor and she retrieved it before anyone could notice. Then didn't tell anyone...until right now after I confronted her about it. It's one of my biggest fears...dropping a camera. (After just having a heart attack back in spring and the hubby dropping the GoPro and not knowing when we were diving in Puerto Vallarta. Eeekkk).

Also, sorry for the coloring in the video. It is horrible in some areas. I have yet to figure out what causes this. No settings are changed but sometimes it turns out real blue or green and other times it is fine. The only thing I can come up with is that it depends on the sunlight (maybe going behind the clouds at times distorts the colors on screen). We even have a filter on the lens so that it helps with the coloring. 😶

As we were leaving, Sakari spotted this weird bug that would fly and then come down and then dig in the sand. He was really interesting to watch.