2012-02-11

Arnd

Winter 2011-2012 Trip 2012-02-11

I had planned on heading to Île Tintamarre and had the boat all ready for some sailing and had the engine started and the anchor ball taken down when my friends from Zanzibar came in and told me that the waves were pretty high out there and the wind stronger than it looked so I opted to stay put after all instead of spending a potentially uncomfortable night aboard the boat off Tintamarre.
So I ended up doing two dives off Creole Rock – the second one was a night dive. I prepared everything, including a second flashlight hanging off the dinghy so that I could locate it underwater in the dark and a VHF handheld radio (just in case) and headed off to the rock in the dinghy shortly before sunset. I was in the water and descended to 20 feet about 15 minutes before dark and let the darkness settle upon me and the seascape, it was interesting to see the daytime shift go to sleep and the night shift come out of hiding. After dark it was surprising how much life came out and every fifth hole in the reef had a Moray eel head poking out of it. While I got some good pictures, the battery on the camera (not the flash, I’d charged that) ran out and some of the nicer images didn’t make it onto the website but will just have to remain in my mind.

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.