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Went out with Blue Water Divers (as usual) and got to a new dive site (Badlands) on the Monday holiday and had a very good time. I really wasn’t feeling well when I got up in the morning, but am glad I went out. The ocean was flat, the sun was shining, and the reef was beautiful and full of life. Visibility was probably around 60-80ft. Jules Nav’d the site well and we had a nice, relaxing, fun dive. We also dived the wreck of L’Herminie in the morning, and I started to have camera problems - the camera got a bit warm and the lens port fogged up. This problem followed me into the afternoon, and it’s really my own fault for using the camera to shoot video instead of stills as this has happened before.

We got back out to Badlands in the afternoon and Jules guided Eric and Tina around as well. This was our first dive together since they passed their “Open Water” course, and they really enjoyed the site and were pretty good on air consumption. It was a great way to spend a Monday.

There are a couple of pics below of a cannon from the L’Herminie and a Smooth Trunkfish we saw at Badlands.

Now, about that hurricane….

Hurricane Nate is supposed to hit us in the wee hours of Friday morning and it’s tracking pretty close to a direct hit, so I hope this isn’t a re-run of Fabian from 2003 when it decided to turn and go right over us. I’m a bit annoyed with Nate, as it may ruin our plans for this weekend. We really want to dive on Saturday and finish our Rescue course Sunday. Nate could get in the way of this, but we’re not going to stand for it! We’ve decided the Hurricane can just go and (insert your favourite expletive here) and go dissipate somewhere else. It’s not ruining our weekend, we’re not going to let it!

On a more serious note, considering we lost all power island wide for over a day in July due to a fire at Belco, I’m hopeful that the hurricane won’t cause any further damage to the power plant. That would suck.

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