Nudi Gal: Mistaken Identity

I slept in a bit more this morning. Hooray! I needed sleep. I have a little rash on my neck.

I posted three unknown nudis from yesterday to Nudibase and Vie answered them all already. I said I could have just asked him at breakfast. And he came over to say hello… It was a different guy. Whoops! I had a serious identification error. We told him that at some point we wanted to take a picture with him. He is here until Friday. I should post the picture with a caption of “a very rare sighting”.

I sometimes have deep thought underwater and one that I had today was… it’s all practice. We keep practicing everything. But when is it no longer practice? When is it real?

On the second dive I think I had one of my strobes turned off for most of the dive. Grrrr. Either I forgot to turn it on in the beginning or instead of turning the strobe strength I accidentally turned it off.

I got out the diopter today and gave it a try. It wasn’t as heavy as I remember, but it is still pretty hard to focus. I am getting better, but it is rough. During the afternoon dive, Bobby kept setting us up on great species, handing us a slug on a rock but he would put us right on top of each other. Man, I need my space. There is a whole ocean, why so close?

There are lots of good cowries, shrimp and crab here. Maybe I’ll make a page with just my shots of those. Especially cool with the diopter.

I chewed through my regulator mouthpiece. It was so terrible. I cannot believe they sell these with the regulator. I have my old one that is custom molded to my teeth but it won’t fit on. Gah.

3P sold me a mouthpiece that will fit it but I am also going to try to melt my old one to see if it can fit.

Then there was no water after the night dive. I couldn’t shower. I waited 5-10 minutes and it seemed to come back on with some pressure so I was finally able to. I came to dinner so late. I was exhausted and I didn’t even stick around for dessert.

Slug Dance Line

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