HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Sorry I haven't blogged in such a long time! It has just been really busy here over the holiday season, and we have been diving diving diving,so I haven't been blogging blogging blogging! You may be able to tell that the last blog wasn't written by me, it was written to a much higher standard than my usual ramblings on.

I was diving at Creole Rock the other day and I was thinking how awsome it would be if I could blog while diving. I think that it is in these moments underwater that I come up with the most profound thoughts. However, right after the dive, I never seem able to recapture the thought.... kind of like when you drink too much red wine, and then the whole world makes sense, but the next morning you can't remember how.

We really have been working hard though. The season picked up dramatically (just like everyone said it would) around Christmas, and that is continuing. We have nothing to compare it to, this being our first year in business, so we are always skeptical at believing what "they" say.

I did want to blog about the last dive of 2008, and the first dive of 2009! The last dive of 2008 was spent on the Gregory with 3 advanced open water students. (Nikita, Derek and Mike) and three divers (Ruud, Brian and Melinda). It was a dive late in the afternoon, so the sun wasn't super high in the sky, but it was still a great dive. There was a shark and a HUGE eagle ray. Plus all the fish that normally congregate aroundt he stern of the Gregory. Everyone was in really high spirits and we had so much fun on the boat ride back. It was a really calm day, so there were hardly any waves and we could really speed up. It was a great last dive.

Then... the next morning we had the most perfect conditions for the start of 2009. Not a cloud in the sky, beautiful, calm waters, we did two great dives in Tintamarre. I was lucky enough to be diving with G and John, two super divers from San Diego. We spent our surface interval at Tintamarre beach covering ourselves in mud, and then finished up with a dive on the Tugboat! It was just perfect.

So, I am taking it as a good omen for the year to come. Great diving, great conditions and really great people as well!

Alright, its time to get the tanks ready for the night dive tonight! Fingers crossed we see an Octopus feeding!

Oh.... and happy new year to everyone! Especially to the new followers of the Blog, Ashish and Cathie and Greg! Now the ratio of my family members and actual divers following this blog is starting to even out! Yeah!

(this blog was written by Sally)