The night was as bad as I’d feared. Zanshin was sideways to the incoming waves much of the time and rolled around quite a bit, I had to resort to my “starfish” sleeping method on the bed – spreading out like a starfish to avoid getting rolled off the bed. At about 03:00 I opted to see if I still had some earplugs (I did) to lessen the noise of the boat moving about and creaking, groaning and slapping with the waves hitting the stern. The only good thing about the night was that I knew that the next one would be much better!
I didn’t do too much in the morning and despite the boat still moving around I didn’t get underway until 09:30 and sailed out of the anchorage to Anse Colombier, where I arrived an hour later. I got the same mooring ball as I had last time and am now basking in both sunshine and calm waters.
I decided to do a shallow dive with the camera and saw some nice fauna, but somehow the camera would not let the aperture or shutter speed be adjusted underwater and all of the pictures were taken at F18 with 1/2000th of second which meant that they turned out very, very dark and unusable. Once I removed the camera from the housing it worked perfectly and I don’t know what I’d done wrong. I’m going to have to do another dive while the sunlight is good to see if I can find all of those fish again.
The second dive produced some photos, and since I’ve got nothing else for today’s blog I’ll post more than their fair share today. I think that I really like this new fish-eye lens, it produces some close-up macros images as well as impressive 180° panorama images and with the 2.8 F-stop it doesn’t need as much light as my other lenses. I do have to figure out a way to clean up the scratch on the underwater lens cover, though.
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