Today was a busy, busy day. It started off with Don coming by at 9AM, in the rain, with a diver to take me on my 2-tank dive. I have to admit I forgot the diver’s name, but he was very friendly and the first local I’ve ever seen diving. He did have a thick wetsuit shorty on and between the two dives it was raining and windy and he was shivering terribly (we cut our surface time to a minimum as it was much warmer in the water than outside). I felt sorry for Don who had to stay up on the surface and he looked rather cold as well. The two dives were very nice and interesting and I wish my camera had been correctly set, I took some wonderful snapshots that, without exception, were overlighted or out of focus; and I don’t know what I did wrong. The diver had a Hawaiian Sling along to catch the numerous large Lionfish we saw and a big Snapper smelled the blood but wouldn’t eat a dead Lionfish (with the spines cut off) until we dropped the fish and moved far away.
Shortly after returning to my boat and as I was drinking a nice hot coffee, Alexis came by and asked if I wanted to join an island tour and within a few minutes I was off with two groups, one a German couple on a Bénéteau 57 called “Eau de la Vie” and another couple from the USA living in a hotel on shore. Robert was our driver and the tour was very interesting (I was fortunate to be able to sit shotgun), we stopped for an entertaining show by Mr. Friendly the fruit vendor and then visited the Emerald Pool / Emerald Falls, which are a UNESCO World Heritage site, then had a very late lunch at Islet View Restaurant before traversing the Carib Indian Reservation (3500 of the original Carib tribe that gave the islands their collective name). Unfortunately after that the rains set it, reducing visibility to mere feet at times, and the rest of the island’s attraction were hidden from view thereafter.
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