Lovin' It

I went diving again this past weekend. I am very glad that I started again. I am also kicking my self in the ass for not doing for the first 2 years we were here on the island. We had a good time.
The first dive was cool. The reef was very active. We planned on taking a lot of pictures so we did not move very fast or very far. While we did spend a bit of time on each place we stopped, we missed the coolest part of the dive....an area of reef with several sea anemeonies. Oh well. I know better for next time. One thing that was not soo cool was my bad judgement. As I attempted to move a starfish, I hit my hand on something and it stung. Well, it still hurts. I hope it clears up in the next few days!
After we were all in the boat, we noticed that we had a group of dolphins haning out. We sat around and watched them for a little bit and then drove to the next dive site.

This place was also cool. We saw several crown of thorn starfish and ended the dive with an eel.

Labor Day

This past weekend, I planned on diving. Diving, diving, diving. The only problem is that we have had a storm off of the coast. We had storm advisories for the weekend. Friday it was scheduled to go until Monday morning. Sunday we checked the water conditions and they were a little rough but not too bad at one spot. We tried it. When we got out ou could not see any thing. We swam back in.
Sunday night I checked the forcast and the warning had been extended to Tuedsay night. I was very bumbed. I ended up driving around the south side of the island and took pictures of the waves:

Trip

Ronnie arrived safely at his destination. He is board out of his mind. So am I. I terribly miss him. I am not sure what we are going to do when one of us deploys for an extended period of time.
The two days prior to him leaving were busy. I took my advance dive class. I did 5 dives in 2 days. Ronnie did 3 of them with me. We were expecting him to be my buddy. (When you dive, you must have a buddy. Ronnie was also going through a program where he had to complete a certain number of dives and assist in teaching.) Due to my ear problems we were expecting him to be assigned to me. I ended up getting assigned someone else. At first, I was kinda upset but she understood my problems. Her son has ear problems when diving also so she knew what I was going through. She ended up being a great instructor. I really enjoyed diving with her. She noticed things that I would have never noticed like this awesome star fish. I can not find a picture of it, but it was cool. If you picture a regular star fish and imagine it puffed up like the difference between a Cheeto and a Cheese Puff. You could not really tell the difference between the arms but if you flipped it over you could see the individual arms. It was COOL.
Ronnie still does not have orders. He is going to make a phone call in the morning and try to find out what is going on. This is so frustrating! I hope he can get this fixed soon.