Did some more diving in Ambergris Cay for the remainder of the week.
All the dives we did were no more than a 5 minute boat ride from the dive centre (would have liked to have dived some of the northern dive sites though) and all seemed to end up near the same point - finishing with Nurse sharks, a very friendly Green Moray eel...
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Some Nurse Shark videos taken during the week:
- One (4.5 MB )
- Two (10 MB )
Was going to do a Night Dive but was told about an 'event' taking place at the Spindrift Hotel that evening.
This particular event, known as the Chicken Drop (aka Chicken S**t Bingo), would take place from 7 o'clock. Never having seen such an event I decided to abstain from the night dive and go and view such an occasion.
I purchased 5 lucky numbers and awaited the drop with baited breath.
Slight disappointment in that a) the event only lasted around 20 seconds, and b) I didn't win...
Ah well, never mind!
Aqua Dives ran a trip to the famed Blue Hole on Tuesday.
A place I've always wanted to dive it was, for me, unfortunately not a particularly good dive.
Way too many people (22 divers on our boat) and a lot of these people were either inexperienced, inconsiderate, a combination of both or were 'narced'.
An amazing dive just ruined by other divers.
Took a few photo's but none are worth posting here. Just leave you with two aerial photos (from http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/legendary-great-blue-hole-of-belize/offbeat-news)
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Superb!
I telephoned Aqua Dives whilst in Tortola and asked them to book me a dive package with hotel accommodation.
They put me in the Sunbreeze Hotel which is where the dive centre is.
Had a fantastic weeks diving with them and had a great time.
Lots of Nurse Sharks, Green Morays, Groupers, Turtles, a Spotted Eagle Ray, and so much more...
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Had a great time getting to Belize.
I left the hotel in Tortola, walked to the ferry and took the fast ferry to St Thomas.
Stayed in a hotel overnight and then caught an early morning taxi to the airport in Charlotte Amalie.
A pain in the backside check-in and then a pleasant flight to Miami.
A couple of hours wait and we then took off for the two hour flight to Belize.
Coming into land there was thick cloud all around us and all seemed good until the engine roar increased and we gained altitude. Apparently, the weather was quite bad at Belize City airport and we circled and then tried again - no luck!
Flew to Cancun and refuelled, then back to Belize.
Before we arrived, there was another American Airlines plane attempting to land. He had to call off as well so our pilot took us East about 30 miles and we then circled for around an hour waiting for the weather to clear.
Unfortunately it didn't so we return to Miami and check into a hotel for the night.
Try again the next morning and this time it is successful.
Only real problem for me is that I've booked a 10 dive package (5 days) and only have 5 days left...going to be busy 