Great weather for diving
Oriole
Tue 3 Apr 2012 19:08
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Chatham Bay, Union Island,
SVG.
12:36.30N 61:27.00W
Having recovered our equilibrium with a rest day on
Saturday we arranged our first dive with Connie and George on Sunday. The
conditions were absolutely perfect with calm seas and no current to fight
against. We have done most of the easily accessible dives here in previous
years but it was great fun to reacquaint ourselves and Connie and George are
very solicitous of our welfare.
 The south-west corner of
Carriacou. Sahara dust closing visibility to 5 miles. (extreme right of
picture is the mangrove lagoon for hurricane shelter)
Our friends Brian and Maggie were completing
the finishing touches to Skitter Scamp prior to hauling for the hurricane season
but managed to find the time to flog us up one of the steep peaks that overlook
Tyrrel Bay. 300 meters may not seem an enormous step for temperate climate
walkers and Munroe baggers, but with the temperature knocking the low 30sC. it
was quite high enough!
 Swimming in a tropical garden, just
like a well stocked aquarium,
 Chris timing her decompression stop
before surfacing.
  Chris has a particular affinity for
these diminutive and delicate juvenile drum fish (left)
and the little blennies (right) which
live in tiny holes in the brain coral.
We continued with a daily dive and by Saturday were
absolutely exhausted again, so we have repaired to lime (lie around in the
shade doing nothing very much) in the tranquility of Chatham Bay where
there is no internet, no mobile phone but the ever present danger of fat
French catamarans anchoring too close. So far we have nothing to complain
about which is sad because we Brits love to moan about those Frenchies!
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