Today was yet another dive at Île Fourchue, but this time we were all prepared and both ladies enjoyed it, swimming from sight to sight including some huge barracuda, lots of rays buried in the sand, a spotted Moray, a very large lobster, lots of flora and more reef fish. We went all the way down to our allowed depth of 60ft and when I made the signal to return Desi waved off and wanted 5 more minutes but we returned and she finished off her safety stop with just over 600 PSI so it turned out to be good timing after all. Once we’d made the wet upwind return trip on the dinghy and cleaned the dive gear we debated staying for another dive or going to Île Tintamarre to dive the tugboat wreck and they opted for the latter so we had a pretty hefty sail to Tintamarre with very big seas and although I’d securely fastened the tanks I could hear them clink as we rolled and it turned out that the coffee machine in the galley had gone on walkabout but once we got a mooring ball (on the 2nd attempt) at Tintamarre I took the dinghy to the dive site to check on conditions while the ladies got to clean the galley.
Unfortunately the conditions weren’t good at the dive site as it is a bit exposed to the swell and there was too much for my comfort. I had to break the bad news to them and was a bit worried about being the bearer of bad news but they didn’t beat me up too badly…
We then had a snack and then a very fast sail under just the genoa to Grand Case, where we anchored and then headed ashore to Calmos Café after showers. We had a lot of fun at Calmos Café with the live (salsa) music and tasty food and didn’t return until after midnight.
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