BEWST DAY YET

BEST DAY YET

We went diving with a new dive operation today, cause ours was all full up. We had to pay an Xtra $10 but the equipt was way better and the boat was nicer and the lunch tastier. We went to Floren Rocks or something like that, i do not do a good job at remembering the names of anywhere we go. The dive was not all that spectacular compared to some of the other dives we have done here but the visibility was fabulous. Saw a sea turtle on the first dive and a bunch of sting rays. We picked up a couple of rich white folk from another boat. I think there are some people who just should not dive. This one lady was all over the place, legs and arms flailing around. Christian and i just stayed in the back of the group shaking our heads. Every few minutes we would watch as she sank into the rocks and kicked the coral. She would out of the blue turn around to see where everyone was and her tank would slam into the the rocks. Christian tried to give her some pointers for the second dive, but she didn^t seem to do much better. Crazy amounts of sea lions. I took a big grasp of air when one scared the hell out of me as it shot right up from underneath me. They will stay and play with you if you turn and twist like they do. I really wanted to touch one, but when one came face to face with me and opened his mouth just a couple inches from my mask i remembered the time last year in Bali when i thought it would be cool to pet the tail of the monkey that was sitting right next to me and it turned agro on me and bit me in the shoulder. As cute as they are they are still wild animals.On the way back to our island Christian and i were sitting out on the bow burning our skin. About every few 100 feet we'd spot little coconut sized heads poke out of the water followed by a sea turtles shell, a few got so close i thought we were going to run them over with the boat. I sat there thinking to myself that i am very fortunate, and that i lead a pretty cool life. Things couldn't be much better than they were right at that moment, Or could they? What was that off to our Starboard side, a couple puffs of saltwater and two big (i don't know what kind of ) Whales. Capt. turned and inched the boat up about 30 yards away and we watched them for a bit, clapping when they came up and wishing they would breach clear up out of the water. Now we are once again headed back towards our island and off in the distance i spot what i think is a school of manta rays jumping out of the water, i point this out to Christian and soon the Capt. is steering the boat towards them, i find this strange, since what are the chances that they will still be there when we come up on them. As we get close the splashes head our way and soon i see that these dark siliutes are not manta rays but a pod of some 80 dolphins. They rush our boat and get out in front and race us in the water right in front of the bow. Now i have seen something similar on the fishing boat with Dalsl porpoises, but on the boat they were like 40 feet below us, here they were maybe 3 feet. It was pretty amazing to watch, a few were jumping clear out of the water and a couple jumped well above the bow of the boat i'd say close to 10 feet above the water, I wished my camera was with me and not on the table in the back of the boat. Christian had his, but he only had the zoom lens on. Out of the 100 or so shots he took, he was able to capture a few good shots.
We had a two day land sea tour planned to another island, but really you have seen one giant land tortoise you've seen them all, and who really wants to ride a horse up to see the worlds second largest volcano crater and the only reason i wanted to swim with penguins was to mark that down as one of my top experiences and to tell Neil Jackson and Jeremiah Boone that i swam with penguins. So instead we are going to dive at least two more times, which equals four more dives. We are hoping for great visibility and dozens of Hammer Head Sharks.