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Heavy Surf Day

It was a big and heavy surf day on the coast around Monterey today. We haven’t been able to dive in Monterey Bay in over two months now because of heavy seas and our schedules.

  • San Carlos Beach at Breakwater was really rolling from the swell.
  • A couple seals were out and about in Otter Cove.
  • Big surf around Monterey.
  • Look for the seals!
  • Divers out at San Carlos Beach. Good luck, guys!
  • Lovers 3 Beach was getting pounded.
Heavy surf at Lovers Point today. We didn’t bother diving here.

Monastery Beach was really rocking and rolling today.

Stay safe out there, everyone! These sea conditions are meant for surfers, not divers.

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Little Cayman Diving Day 6

Getting ready for our final day of diving at Little Cayman. The dive boats they use at the Little Cayman Beach Resort are really nice and basically brand new.
The Nassau Groupers are really starting to congregate in advance of their annual spawning event.
It felt like an absolute storm of fish.
Fish blizzard!
Swimming through a little canyon between big mountains of coral.
A couple Nassau Groupers came through the storm of fish, getting ready for the mating frenzy that’s on the way.
Heading along a sand channel toward the Big Wall for one last view of the abyss before we head home.
Heading out into the blue from the reef. The transition to the coral heads out to the deep blue of the open ocean is absolutely extraordinary.
Heather up on the top of the reef looking for one or two last tiny things to take a photo of before we have to go on our surface interval for our flights home.
A barracuda came over to to say hello to us before we got out of the water for the last time on this trip to Little Cayman.
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Little Cayman Diving Day 5

Another great day of diving in the Cayman Islands awaits!
Diving around Little Cayman is just like being in an aquarium. The number of fish and all of the healthy coral make this a really special place.
A 5 or 6 foot long nurse shark was hanging out in the sand as we swam by to get to the Big Wall where the reef drops off into the depths.
Doing a swim-through up on the reef. There are a ton of great swim-throughs to explore on SCUBA around Little Cayman.
Doing a big swim-through on the way to the deep blue.
Popping out on the side of the Big Wall where the reef falls away for 3,000 feet before reaching the bottom.
Heading into another swim-through. I love exploring all of these little caves and channels between the reef.
Heading through another reef swim-through. When I popped out at the far side and just after I turned my camera off, Heather came up to me holding a small piece of plastic in her hand. She was trying to give it to me. I thought she had found some trash and wanted me to put it in my BC pocket to take to the surface. Upon closer inspection, it was a silicone ring. I figured it must have fallen off of another diver. She was insistent though on pushing it onto my ring finger. I thought she just wanted to make sure I didn’t lose it carrying it to the surface. Once I was up on the surface, she told me it was MY engagement ring! Heather had remembered a conversation we had on our third ever date about how it’s not fair that only women get engagement rings and that guys should get them, too. Well, here I am with an engagement ring now! 🙂
Divers from our boat on their safety stop before heading to the surface. Most of the dive sites around Little Cayman have shallow moorings where you can do your safety stop while checking out the reef. A few require you to hover at 15 feet partway between the bottom and the boat.
Heading down from the dive boat.
Swimming over the top of the reef to the Big Wall. It’s amazing how the reef just suddenly falls away and there is nothing but deep blue water in every direction.
There is nothing but water below me for 3,000 feet.
It’s like a blue chromis fish super highway along the edge of the reef on the Big Wall. Thousands upon thousands of these little blue fish just keep on trucking by.
This Nassau Grouper likes chilling out over top of a big barrel sponge. It must be like a fish Jacuzzi.
Here’s a photo of our matching silicone engagement rings 🙂
I can’t get enough of all of the outstanding swim-throughs that Little Cayman offers!
You never know what you’ll find in the channels that cut through the reef.

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