We awoke this morning, to blue skies and sunshine; today was going to be a good day. It had rained so hard yesterday that the cushions on the port side of the saloon got wet.

9.00 am, we all suited up for the first dive of the day. Today was going to be the day, the end of my quest was in sight.

Within 3 minutes of rolling off the boat into the water, Nick (our dive master cum Cap’n Ron look alike) gave the signal we had all been waiting for…….a seahorse!!! This information is communicated by imitating riding a horse (looks quite silly, but then so do a lot of the signals for the fish we see underwater.)

We all swam over quickly. Sure enough there he/she (not sure if they are hermaphrodites) was in all its glory. The conditions weren’t brilliant, visibility was impaired and there was a lot of surge, so staying stable long enough to get a shot and getting close enough was difficult.

I took 3 shots and swam off to look at a lizard fish Bill had found, before returning to take another couple of shots, just in case.

The rest of the dive was a bit of an anti-climax, apart from seeing 3 big lobsters all sharing the same crevice.

In fact, when we were back aboard the dive boat Bill commented that as soon as we saw the sea horse the dive was all but over. True, but it was worth it!

The rest of the day was spent busying ourselves with boat chores. Bill and I winched Roger up the mast, so that we could calibrate the Windex which sits atop the mast (whilst it was telling us the wind speed, it wasn’t giving the correct direction). That done Bill and I lowered Roger down in a stop-go fashion, so that he could do a full check of the rigging.

I then shot off to get the propane tank filled while Roger did other ‘stuff’ on the boat.

So it is only now that I have managed to download my photos. They are not the best photos, but I am not going to beat myself up. I saw the sea horse and you have the photo to look at, mission accomplished. Oh yes and guess what? IT’S RAINING AGAIN!!!! We are so glkad that we didn’t come here in the rainy season. J.