27th May 2012

ECO all the way this week.

The Beach & Dive Site Clean Up was yesterday and either side of that we've been building new structures for Junkyard :-D

As so many people find it so difficult to navigate to our site from the buoy line (which is just disgraceful) we thought we'd make it a bit easier for them and construct 3 metal pyramids leading the way to the dive site.  The pyramids have also been designed so that we can transplant corals onto them, which was our main aim :-D  

Earlier this morning, we loaded the structures onto the longtail along with some concrete slabs that we scrounged from the Regal hotel and Si & We motored out to Junkyard to drop them off at Junkyard.  Not wanting to just throw them overboard and destroying anything below, Si put his mask & fins on and checked out below.  I quickly & easily launched the pyramids but I didnt have the strength to move the slabs so Si had to try and move the longtail around on his own, jump back on the longtail and then lift and throw the slabs into the water before drifting back.

Exhausted and mission completed, we headed back to Crystal and waited for the eco volunteers who's afternoon mission was to correctly place the pyramids and secure them with the concrete slabs and for the girls in the team, we'd attempt to fix some of the broken fixtures and clean some of the coral nurseries.  28 minutes into the dive the weather had turned, rain, big swells and we noticed that our boat (Crystal II) was starting to drag the buoy line which wasnt secured properly yet,  ...which was the last thing we wanted.  So we aborted the dive and got all the divers out of the water as quickly as possible so we could unhook from the line and head back to base.   We have planned to go out again tomorrow moring to finish off, perhaps just on the longtail this time but let see what the weather has planned.