We got up and had a light breakfast and started heading
towards Pelican Island thinking we’d dive.
Wind was great so we instead decided to sail and head towards our
evening destination of Cooper Island. We
had a great sail doing about 8 knots most of the way. Prior to picking up a mooring at Cooper, we
wanted to get a dive in so we took the sails down near Salt and then headed to
Vanishing rock. Current looked decent
but not too bad, so we got all our gear together and got in. Once in, we realized it was stronger than it
seemed – probably would have been fine at depth, but one of the 3 divers in our
group only has 1 dive trip under his belt so we decided to play it safe and
bailed. We instead moved over to Cooper,
picked up a ball and had some lunch.
After lunch, we took the dinghy to Cistern point for a dive.
The dive at Cistern point was great and we had a blast. At one point we found some cleaner shrimp so
I put my hand down for them to clean but didn’t notice another type of shrimp
in a nearby hole. He took offense to my
being so close and reached out pinching my finger. So we moved on.. Saw a number of big tarpon and a lot of the
other typical fish you see as well.
After the dive, we headed back to the boat, relaxed for a
bit and then loaded up the dinghy with our empty tanks and headed in. We got in around 3 and no one was there. We were told to keep an eye out for them as
they may come back and we could get them filled. So we started drinking. And I don’t think that stopped until we left
after dinner 6-7 hours later! We played
some darts during this time and chatted with another couple who were on their
Lagoon 52. We invited them to join us so
they got their two crew and came back and all 10 of us had dinner
together. It was a fun night! Once we got back to the boat, it took about 5
minutes before everyone was headed off to their cabin for the night.
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