Tuesday, February 21, 2012

I think we're in full laid back mde

Few clouds this morning then full sun.  Headed of to Luna Beach after a bacon and eggs breakfast.  Eileen decided to come along today and hang out at the dive resort.  She met up with a Urkranian woman that talked her ear off for most of my first dive, just when she was getting to an intruiging part of her latest Kindle book.  She did a couple of cool down wades into the ocean and found a nice starfish right out in front of the resort.  Although there was a number of people on the boat diving today, the others were all doing a class or else an initiation dive, so both dives this morning were just me and the dive master again.  Can't get any better than that.  I showed them my list of dive sites that I'd done, so both dives today were new ones.  Both of them were nice, but there was nothing too spectacular, although we were able to stretch our bottom times to over 60 minutes on both dives.  My mask fogged up bad on the second dive, which really sucked.  There was one time when I was drifting along, looking to my right and then bang.  My left shoulder collided with a six foot barrel sponge.  No harm done to me or the sponge, but I'm certainly going to do a better job of applying the anti-fog on the next dive.  Couple of pictures:
A fairly big sea cucumber (maybe 18"), crawling over a hummock.  Often see the skeletons of these guys but I don't often see then crawling around.

A huge spiny lobster, nothing here for scale but his legs are at least a foot long, probably more.  That would be quite the lobster tail.

Left the car at Luna Beach and walked into West End for lunch at Off ya Noodle.  I think they're trying to fill the void left by the Noodle Shack departure and they're doing a good job at it.  Very tasty, but not quite the same without the personal service that the original noodle shack delivered.  Walked down to the vege trucks and picked up a few things (watermelon #3), and then hiked back to Luna Beach.  Made a reservation at Rendevous on the way home (3:30 by the time we got here) then lazed about for a few hours.  Watched todays cruise ship sail past the house, they're far away but you can see the camera flashes going off as people are taking pictures of the sunset over West Bay

There was only one boat today but for the next two days there are three or four of them with a total of 9,000 plus passengers.  Sounds like good days to avoid West Bay.
Headed out the door for dinner and felt something on my leg as I stepped out.  Thought it was just a moth but looked down and there was a gecko guy scrambling up my leg.  Fortunately he stayed on the outer layer when he hit clothing, and by the time he got to the waistline he didn't like going upside down and bailed out. 
Did a repeat tonight and went to Rendevous for sushi.  Stuck with the tried and true and had their seaweed salad and coconut ginger soup again.  Ventured out with some new sushi styles and came home very satisfied.  Great place and a very nice couple.
No plans for tomorrow.  Sent an email out to Mike to see if he had any golfing plans for the next two days.  If we don't golf before Friday, then we're not golfing again, they're hosting some national championship tournament and the course is closed starting on Friday.  Might get in touch with Palmetto Bay and see if they're doing any snorkel trips, or we might just do ???

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  1. Forgot to add that I got 18.5 lempiras per Canadian dollar, including ATM fees, et. I was pretty happy with that.

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