Happy Easter from Team Octopus

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Easter. We are closing tomorrow for some well deserved R & R. We were thinking of going out and having some kind of egg hunt on scuba, but then we thought how much we would really rather sleep late. Also, as a customer pointed out, salty chocolate easter eggs didn't sound too good.

The weather has been so great lately I almost don't want to mention it, in case that changes something. I do have something to blog about. Yesterday at Creole Rock Chris was diving with 2 dolphins! It seems so unlucky for me that I missed it. You see, Chris and I usually alternate who teached the diving courses, and the last two students he asked me to take over because he thought that they would have a better rapport with me, so that means that I wasn't teaching Stella, from South Africa, her Open Water Course. So... in consequence, I wasn't diving at Creole Rock with Stella when they saw dolphins. I blame Chris.

Anyway... I am happy for Chris, he was buzzing all evening so we went to Pineapple Pete's for dinner. We really like Pineapple Pete's. It is located in Simpson Bay on the Dutch side, the service is great, the food is good and the price is very reasonable.

Something else I keep thinking that I want to mention in the blog is that I think that the porcupine fish are mating at the moment. They seem to be acting very strange. I tried looking up some information on them but I wasn't very successful. What they seem to be doing is that one porcupine fish will be chasing another. The chasing porcupine fish looks normal (with a grey body and lots of small brown dots all over it), but the one being chased has more of a patchwork look about it... not normal. There are large patches of darker brown color all over the porcupine fish being chased. Occassionally a third porcupine fish will come around and then chase the original chaser. At which point he (or she)... the chaser, becomes the chasee and suddenly changes color to reveal the brown areas of patchwork. It is amazing when they change, it is so fast. It is really bizarre behavoir and I can't figure it out, but has been occuring for about 2 weeks now. If you have any further information, just let me know.

Well, the divers should be back from Tintamare any moment now. I'm kind of torn because I want them to have seen dolphins as it would make them all really happy, but then I will be really jealous as I wasn't on the boat, so I am secretly hoping that they didn't. Does that make me a bad person? Or just honest?

Anyway... HAPPY EASTER everyone. Oh... and just a quick note, I googled imaged "Scuba Bunny" to find an Easter image for the blog and there were some disturbing photos of divers dressed in Bunny suits... I decided to go with the drawing instead.

(Sally wrote this blog :) )

Divers are back, no dolphins.... YES! I mean NO!