Called up Dive Grenada on the VHF and booked in to do a couple of dives tomorrow. Their dive boat is moored in the marina where we are so it's a straight-forward lift there and back.
The dives were okay, nothing brilliant about either of them but didn't really get any decent photo's. Would've liked to have dived the Bianca C but they weren't doing it that day.
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Sailed down from Carriacou to Grenada and moored up at the marina in St Georges.
The first thing you see as you enter the marina is the old hotel that was used as a base by the Cuban advisors back in 1983. According to the locals, this is the first thing the Americans destroyed when they invaded:
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We move from Hillsborough Bay around to Tyrrell Bay and then go ashore to book some dives with Arawak Divers. Owned and run by George and Connie, Andy and myself book two dives for tomorrow morning.
I'm pleased to say that there are only the three of us diving (Connie, Andy and myself) but I wish there were more people down here as the place seems like a ghost town - get down here, the dives we did were excellent!
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Down the dive center at 0900 and sort the 'usual' stuff out.
There's Jamie (the Jock dive instructor - recently started here); Lindsay, a Canadian divemaster, who's studying in Bequia; and two Americans, Nancy and Lorne who we pick up in Mayreau.
The first dive is Mayreau Gardens, which was a really good dive and the second dive out on Horseshoe Reef is a little harder with a very strong current to go against in the second half of the dive: not quite how I'd have planned the dive but...
Unfortunately, the seal on my camera housing is not performing today so only surface photos of the Cays:
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We arrive at Union around 1700 and I book two dives with Glenroy Adams' Grenadines Dive tomorrow.
Dinner in the West Indies restaurant and then head down!
Two dives today with Canouan Dive Center: South Cato and Bachelors Rest.
Only three of us diving: an Italian named Matteo, Andy and myself in the very capable hands of Tim:
We arrived in Canouan around 1400 hours and went ashore to the dive center located at the Tamarind Beach Resort.
Spoke with Julie and booked two dives tomorrow...
Managed to get hold of Rol again and was told there was no chance as they'd been out to have a look and the conditions weren't safe to dive!
Never mind but I'd already bought the t-shirt!!!! :-)
Decided to leave Mustique this afternoon and head down to Canouan.
Spoke to Rol (one of the commercial divers) and was told that there was no chance this afternoon as the current is way too strong! Maybe tomorrow...!
I went to the dive center on Mustique to enquire about diving the Antilles (a French cruise liner caught on the rocks and sunk in the seventies).
I was told that due to the sea conditions having to be right they probably only get to dive it once per year!! Guess that's not going to happen whilst we're here then.
Andy started taling to one of the commercial divers down by the beach and they said they might be able to take me out...
Dived with Dive Bequia today. We did two good reef dives and highlights of the dives were seeing the largest lobster I have ever seen, another sea-horse (which is always good), and an Angel Fish.
Definite low points of the dive were when everytime the guide, Didi, saw something and pointed it out a French-Canadian 'gentleman' (ah-hem!) would literally barge everyone out of the way to take a photo.
We wont talk anything about buoyancy because he didn't have any - I hope he got some good photos because he sure damaged a lot of reef getting them!
Did two dives today with Kay Wilson's Indigo Divers - Petite Bayhaut and Anchor Bay.
Two really good dives, excellent visibility, lots of marine life, only four divers :-) and excellent service. Gary (boat captain) also caught a big sailfish between dives.
Bad news though, I lost my WRU bandana in the water during the second dive - damn!