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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanMay 22, 09 Comments Off
 collection-of-curacao-sponges Good evening faithful ones!! I had such a great dive this afternoon! After our noon programs had finished I grabbed my gear and the camera and met my dive buddy and co-worker Naomi for an ultra fun deep dive. Our plan was to go straight out and over the edge to 135 feet and look for a giant barrel sponge that used to be there, I saw it four years ago but someone said it died quite awhile ago so we went to check it out. So down we went, the visibility was spectacular and there was no current, it just doesn’t get any better! When we got to 115 feet I saw something I had never seen before, the two big sunken tugboats that are laying on a ledge at 170 feet! From a hundred feet you could see them just as plain as day that’s how clear the water was! I have only seen these tugs from the safety of the mini-sub or from photos that my friend Gordy has taken, to say I was star-struck was an understatement!! We found out immediately that the giant barrel sponge was gone, we would have seen it for sure because of the ability to see for every direction so far! So we ended up staying at around 120 feet racing from one incredible outcrop of sponges and corals to another and slowly working our way up the slope. There’s an area down there the size of a football field just filled with these unbelievable sponges almost like big flower arrangements and each one seemed to be more beautiful than the next. Your photo this evening has so many different varieties of sponges in one little cluster, I was so excited I could hardly stand it and can hardly wait to go back. The down side to these new found treasures is of course the depth, I can only be down there for like 10 minutes max, doesn’t give me much time! On the way up I was just looking at things I want to go back to so stay tuned for more fun pictures from the deep.
About thirty minutes after we surfaced I was asked if I wanted to go do a snorkel with the babies, I said heck yeah let’s go! We jumped in with Tela and baby Pasku and DeeDee and baby Tikal, it was a blast! I pretty much would just take a deep breath and lay on the bottom waiting for Junior or Rona (the trainers) to bring the dolphins to me, seemed to work pretty well. I took a bunch of cool stuff will get that to you as well in the next few days.
At 6:00 Aimee and I took the hound dogs on a fun one hike into the sunset at Saint Joris. As usual it was a great time although I did slip climbing a rock and scratched up my arm pretty good, but hey after a day like that who cares!!
See you tomorrow, same bat time, same bat channel (that’s from the old, old t.v. series of batman) Good night, Barry
Oh Geez I almost forgot, I saw a new brand of potato chips today that are mayonnaise and ketchup flavored???? For those of you un-believers I will send a photo upon request, now I have seen it all, yucky!!!
05-22-2009
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