Sun, Sand & Surf -- who needs anything more?

The beach is great!! I did not get to go scuba diving Tuesday because they didn't have enough people signed up to go out on the boat. It got rescheduled for Friday. I got to go out today. I was rusty and this was my first small boat dive with swim lines. We didn't go very deep -- staying around 65 feet. It was a good practice dive. They had an old barge they sank but it turned on its side. They originally built it with concrete beams with activities like triangles to swim through etc. Unfortunately when it turned on its side, it left lots of debrie with not much to do or look at. So they took some old tanks(APOs -I think they called them) and gutted them and allow you to dive straight through or go up the manhole opening. The water was 82 degrees so I didn't need my wet suit. I just used my new SPF/surf shirt and tankini. This was fun but I did scrap my leg as I tried to turn to quickly coming out of an opening. It was superficial luckily. It was so great to get back in the water and scuba!!!!
Thanks to all who prayed that we get enough divers because we only had 6 which is the minimum number they will take out. They have enough for my second trip on Friday but the low pressure developing off the coast is suppose to cause some good wind. Bad enough that they probably will not go out Saturday, but they think they will be able to take us out to Sherman which is only about 5 miles off the coast. Its an old civil war frigate that sank and broke apart. Nothing to practice penetrating (going down into the wreck) but it should be exciting to see it. And its another day out scuba diving.

On another note. I have the place to myself for the rest of the week. I really enjoyed the time with two families and enjoyed playing nanny at times. It seems so quiet. Trevor & Kendra needed to go home early for some work Trevor needed to get back and do. Tim & Lindsay had and unexpected death - Lindsay's grandfather passed away and they had to pack up early to go home for the viewing and funeral. I am going to relax tommorrow and hopefully scuba. And I will play it by ear if I go home on Friday or Saturday. I had fun tonight with the tripod taking some pictures of myself on the beach. Did you know its difficult to take pictures of yourself doing a flip? It was fun trying :) I also decided that without the tripod I will be taking pictures of my feet in the places I've visited since my arms aren't long enough to get good face shots. :) Check out the web album for more pictures