The adults got up at 6:30 this morning.  Surprise of all surprises, the Scouts come to the adults door this morning at 7 am to announce that breakfast is ready … even if it was cold cereal, they were on the ball.

After eating, we cleaned up, goofed off and kidded each other some, packed our scuba gear and climbed in the cars to head for Lady Cyana’s.  Ken is joining our dives today.  We get to Lady Cyana’s at 8:30 (on-time) and Ken gets checked in while we get our dive gear out of storage.  We’re off from the docks shortly after 9 am with a boatload of tourists and go quite a bit further out into the Atlantic.  We anchor at our first dive site, called Crocker Ridges, where the bottom is at about 35 feet.  Between the coral ridges in this area are open sandy areas and we follow one of these down to a maximum depth of 60 feet.  Again, the fish population is significant and their color is boundless.  We saw our first moray eel on this dive, another small stingray and generally just cruised around on our way back to the boat.  Our total dive time was 42 minutes and visibility wasn’t as good today, being only around 60 feet.  Ken experienced an inner-ear problem and had to return to the boat a little early, so we all got out with some extra air in our tanks.

Again, during the 45 minutes while we’re resting from the dive, the boat crew repositioned to another site.  This site, called Davis Ledge, has a hard bottom at just 20 feet.  Ken isn’t feeling well after the last dive and decides to stay on the boat.  This site has the most fish of any we’ve been at as was like being inside an aquarium.  Some guys spotted a nurse shark; other saw two three-foot moray eels and everyone noticed the large barracuda that would swim up to within a couple feet of you before sauntering off.  Being so shallow, our bottom time was just at an hour, and most of us could have stayed down another ten to fifteen minutes, but the group surfaced anyway.

Once we get back to Lady Cyana’s, we loaded up and went back to the motel rooms, ate some lunch and the Scouts dropped on their beds to watch cartoons.  The adults took to their beds, too, but found more entertainment in naps.  Our meal plan called for tonight’s meal to be at a restaurant and after last night’s meal at the Outback, we decided to visit Burger King.  Once we’re back in our rooms, we begin packing for Sea Base and then the Scouts go to the pool for one last swim.  Bedtime was 10:30 pm.

NEXT: Day 4