Halloween and More

So yesterday was our day of since it was a Saturday. It started for me about 7:30, real nice and easy. I had my coffee in the hammock while reading my new book. After about an hour I decided to make sweet potato pancakes for everyone. I was surprised because they turned out real good and everyone really liked them. Afterwards I went down to the dock to do my workout and swim in the mangroves. And that basically sums up my morning...just another morning in paradise.
Then me and three other interns decided to go to West End and see what was happening. We walked around there a bit, ate a really good lunch, walked around some more, and then bought some flavored rum really cheap for later on. Then we caught a cab back to the casa. The strangest thing happened on the ride home. I was in the front, and the driver had rasta music turned on. Then he started to change the music to the Begees or something like that. As the song started he turned to me, pointed and said "This one is for you." I almost burst out laughing. I didn't know how to respond so I just thanked him. I swear people saw the most crazy things to me. Earlier this week I was asked if I was looking for a Honduran woman to marry. But that is a different story.
Later on, the weather started storming up so it brought the bugs out, and inside the house. I was sitting in the living room and I looked up and noticed the wall across from me was moving. It was literally covered with hundreds of leaf cutter ants. The entire time it was raining outside there were trails of ants running all over our house. Also the mosquitoes were really bad. We brought all the fans to the center of the house and had the air whipping around just to make it hard for them to fly. We have one guy that is covered head to foot with bites just from last night. Not much else happened, we just sat around and watched Zombieland.

Diving Jokes

This morning was like every other. Up at 6:30 and out by 7. We got situated at the shop and then took the boat out for a two tank dive. We had 8 divers going, with just two non instructors/interns. We dove first at a place called Rockstar, which I have dove once before. However, each dive is different and this was no exception. We saw some great stuff, there was an crazy nudibranch which was black and white polka dotted, a mature lionfish, huge schools a fish covering the reef, a large moray eel, and so much more. I had one instructor freak out cause i acted like I was going to grab the tail of the huge moral eel that was sticking out. Pretty funny. The crazy part of this dive happened when some water leaked into my mask. I looked down and noticed the water was a deep green. I had no idea what to make of it then i remembered that green is the color red looks underwater. It was because my nose was bleeding bad enough to partially fill my mask. It was crazy to think that my blood was coming out green, but then i am from Roswell, NM. I figured that my sinuses couldn't take the pressure due to my cold so I just came up about 20 feet. After that I was good. The next dive was at Milton's Bight. This might be my favorite dive site so far. During our 55 minute dive, we saw two huge spotted eagle rays, another large green moray, a real small golden tail moray, and of course much more than I can remember.

Day at the Shop

The rest of the day consisted of reading my divemaster manual, cleaning shop, coming home, cooking a meal of beans and rice and then some rice pudding for dessert. All this makes for a pretty good day.

Our Beach

Well, I know all this is pretty boring about what I'm eating and all. So I will try to keep my next posts shorter with emphasis on just my dives and any other interesting happening in my day.