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Little Cayman Diving Day 4

Heather made a Nassau Grouper friend. He really, really wanted Heather to pet him like divers used to do at Little Cayman. Alas, it’s no longer allowed so Heather had to give him some tough love and tell him that petting is no longer allowed.
He was pretty sure if he swam as close as possible to Heather for long enough, she’d eventually cave in and pet him. But Heather was strong and never touched this grouper.
Looking back toward the Big Wall from out in the blue.
Doing a big swim-through in the reef. Coming up from the deep to the shallow part of the reef.
A couple divers silhouetted by the sun.
Heather taking a photo of something tiny.
Heading out into the sand flats in search of stingrays.
We discovered a stingray in the sand!
We didn’t go to Little Cayman only for the diving. On our third dive of the day, I tapped Heather on the shoulder (after she finished taking pictures of some tiny thing) and when she turned around, I presented her with a black ring box that I opened to reveal a blue silicone ring! Heather started smiling so much that her mask filled up with water and she sank a little bit. After she recovered, she donned her new ring and we kissed and hugged. Then she saw I had some back up rings in case the one in the box sprung free! Fortunately it did not and we didn’t add any plastic to the oceans. When we surfaced and the staff asked how our dive was we excitedly shared we’d gotten engaged! They said we were the first people to get engaged on their boat. No one else was in the water at the time so it was a special moment with just us, but we did get a pretty good selfie.
A beautiful sunset greeted us as we left the dock for a night dive on the reef.

I didn’t get any photos on the night dive but Heather did. Maybe she’ll share some online. We used the Kraken dive light that I won at the 2018 Monterey Shootout underwater photography contest. It was absolutely amazing how well the blue and red modes on that light work underwater. Instant fluorescence party!

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