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It’s taken me a while to find the time to get around to this update. Work has been crazy, and our Weekend/social time has been mostly taken with diving (shock!). Right now I’m feeling tired, and spread a little thin. This isn’t a good time to ask me stupid questions.

On a lighter note, We started the PADI Night Diver Specialty course just over a week or so, so we’ve managed to get a couple of mid-week night dives in as well as our normal weekend diving. In the past 11 days we’ve managed to get 8 dives - not bad, eh?

The highlights of the dives have been a couple of close encounters with Great Barracuda, swimming into a (dead-end) cave filled with Glassy Sweepers, a pair of Filefish, and pretty much all of our 88 minute Night Dive with Joe (a new record bottom time for us!). On Joe’s dive we saw lots of Lobster and Octopus, a large sleeping Stoplight Parrotfish, a couple of Banded Coral Shrimp, a scrawled Cowfish, and we also got to watch the Glow-worms mate for around 10 minutes with our dive-lights off.

For me, it was a fun weekend for underwater photography as I got to play with my (new) macro lens and was able to take some decent night photos thanks to the diffuser I bought for my strobe (which probably also stopped the barracuda reflecting back too much light). I spent ages trying to get a close up shot of a Lizardfish on our last dive of the weekend, and got a couple of decent ones. My problem is that my camera doesn’t have an autofocus (it’s a fixed length digital) so I have to move it perfectly into place to get the focus in the right spot, and try to judge this underwater, looking at a tiny screen. I did have a Macro wand attached to the camera to help measure distance, but (unsurprisingly) it just scared the fish away!

As usual, Jules navigated for me this weekend and left me free to worry about photographs and nothing else. Bliss!

The photos below are (in order) a filefish, Great Barracuda, Octopus (easy one, that!), Glassy Sweepers, and a close up of a Lizardfish.

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