2nd Day - July 5th 2013

Our cabin

Pirates, taken in the morning - its all closed up

Woke up this morning around 7 (we stayed in one of the two cabins at the main level - very cool with lots of windows!). Hung out on the boat a bit relaxing, then made breakfast and headed to the Caves. Did some snorkeling and went all the way to the back of the big cave. Very cool if you haven't tried it! Saw a lot of the typical fish and a turtle too! Plus a couple of big Barracuda swam by.  Our newbies enjoyed it!

From there we headed to the Indians, but it was full so we grabbed a ball at Pelican and dove and snorkeled (6 in our group dive, the other 3 do not). This was a nice dive with a lot of the typical fish as well - a few big file fish and I also spotted a bunch of shrimp and we also saw grass eels. After this we were hoping to move to the indians, but it was still full. So we decided to head back to Norman to have lunch at Pirates. Lunch was great - we all had a bushwhacker and I had the Chicken Roti which was very good!
It was now around 3pm so we decided we'd give the Indian's another try and this time there were a few balls free. We dove and snorkeled and it was great. Aside from the typical stuff, we unfortunately saw 3 lionfish. 2 were quite large and one was not the typical colors - more brown/bronze. Got it on video, I'll share that later. We also saw two eels - got some nice closeups of them too! A few Angelfish too - one of our favorites!

Some of the dive highlights!

Rock Beauty's at the Indians

A brown lionfish

After we stowed all our gear, we decided we'd just motor to Soper's hole - it was getting later, we were tired and one downside to a big boat like this is it does take a bit more effort to get the sail down. Up is not so bad with the electric winch though.
So here we are at Soper's, group is getting cleaned up - we're going to eat on the boat and head to Pusser's to use the drinking man's guide and have a drink or two. Another great day in the books!

Group shot taken that night

Tomorrow we fill up the dive tanks, grab some groceries and then head to Jost Van Dyke for the day. Planning on Marina Cay for the night as we have a rendezvous dive with Dive BVI Sunday Morning!