Diving Into Blue

"Muy bueno!" says Greg about his 200th dive!

We went to one of his favorite reefs--Palancar Bricks. We saw lots of fun stuff, like:

• A huge turtle just hanging out under a reef.
• A medium size turtle just swimming along.
• A little, cute turtle munching on some coral.
• A hermit crab who didn't want his picture taken.
• A huge stingray playing in the sand.

• Many other assorted fish who had no problems being videotaped.

We did a private dive with Pingo so we had all the time in the world to explore and enjoy ourselves. The water was pretty choppy that morning and it was quite fun just trying to get on the boat from the dock. The huge waves pounded the boat into the dock so you had to time your leap into the boat just right.

Just before we got to the dive site, we got our gear on so we could be ready to jump in when Pingo gave us the signal. One giant stride, and we were in! We headed to the sandy bottom and started the dive.

We weaved in and out of the swim throughs, enjoying the sights. The deepest point we hit was 76 feet before we slowly made our way up through open water around huge coral heads before we made it to the top of the reef at about 45 feet.

All in all, Greg's 200th dive lasted a glorious 49 minutes! Here's to at least 200 more!