2014-01-31

Arnd

2014 Trip 2014-01-31

I knew that I wouldn’t have a good night after the tasty but heavy steak aboard, and my prediction came true (or else it was a self-fulfilling prophecy) and I think I’ll go back to bread-and-water while my digestive tract deals with the antibiotics. In the morning I puttered around the boat and then decided to switch into vacation mode and got my diving gear out, assembled the camera, and dinghied to Creole Rock for an exploratory dive. The winds and surf had kicked up sediment so the visibility wasn’t very good, but it was good practice to get back into diving and operating the camera while submerged. I took around 200 photos and 8 of them turned out and are posted here, not a bad average for underwater photographs. While nothing spectacular was seen or photographed it was still a fun dive and tomorrow I’ll take the 4x magnifying filter and do some close-ups since the visibility isn’t going to get better for several days.
Back aboard I spent a good two hours reading the Reef Fish book and editing the photos I’d taken while the odd shower passed through the anchor. Some of those squalls packed very powerful winds, lifting the little wavelets into a froth!
I fired up the generator and had it multi task again – charge the batteries, make water, warm up the shower water, run the dive compress to fill up the two dive tanks and run the inverter to charge the notebook, Kindle, underwater flash, hair trimmer and I would have charged up my cell phone, too – had I found it. The watermaker beeped and shut itself off due to filter pressures and I had to change both pre-filters; but as I’ve done this before, it took less than 5 minutes to do (shut off water intake, loosen 2 filters, get bucket, put and empty filters into bucket, replace 2 filters, open water intake valve and restart watermaker).
My plans to eat ashore were changed by the frequent and hefty showers that passed by after sunset and I ended up making dinner aboard instead of heading into town. Tomorrow I’ll find a good restaurant and dine out instead.

Original hosting provider breaks my old website

My old hosting company, who will remain unnamed although their name starts with “go” and the end rhymes with “baddy”, changed their software with little notice and the original SV-ZANSHIN.COM site stopped working overnight.

Every. Single. Page.

So I’ve transitioned to another provider. These original pages have been migrated, but all the formatting and other features are gone and the will still contain numerous display issues and formatting anomalies.

The manual effort of conversion is too much and not worth the effort involved. Over 1000 blog diary pages like this one are going to remain in this condition. The pictures are full-scale, but won’t expand when clicked. But you can can copy them to view them in their original splendour.