Day 103 - 18th May 2010

We were woken by the biggest clap of thunder ever this morning which scared the living daylights out of me.  With the rain lashing down and lightening, it was pretty fantastic to watch.  Apparently our aerial was struck but seeing we dont really watch the cable tv, we didnt notice.

As you can imagine, we stayed in most of the morning, Si was working and I got my bag ready for todays diving.  Around 11am, after it had dried up a bit we rode down to Deep Down to collect Si's camera, as today Nathan wants him to film some of the bleaching at 'Twins'.

After Si struggled down to the boat with his enormous camera, we walked to Crystal to collect our dive gear and order breakfast from 'Zest'

Today, we helped Nathan deploy mooring buoys and roped lines to protect the shallow bay and extend the snorkelling area at 'Mango Bay'  We had a 100 meter line with numerous small buoys along to add.  The existing line was untied from one end along with a couple of guide ropes underwater and then we tied the extention on, making sure we were far enough away from the main mouring buoy.   After putting down new guide ropes, tied onto rocks 4/5 meters beneath the line, the snorkelling area had almost doubled.

The 2nd dive was at 'Twins'.  Si was taking his big camera on this dive but once in the water, discovered that he'd not replaced the tape  DOH!!!  So I took Nathans stills camera and took a few photo's of coral bleaching, and we both recorded some data for Coral Watch. 

Off the boat, Si struggled up to DeepDown equiped with both his camera and dive gear to drop off his camera.  I headed straight back to Crystal to clean my kit and then waited a few minutes for Si to turn up.

This evening, the Open Water video showing has a little of our friend Teresa's footage in,  so in order not to miss it, we shot home to check Si's UK work and then returned to Crystal at 7.30ish to watch the video.  The video was cool and all her shots were good.

Today it feels so much cooler and by the look of things, it might well rain again later (fingers crossed)