With a BBQ chicken burger safely stored in my belly,we al headed for dive two. IT began rather strangely with an underwater stramash - an attempt to take a group photo. Eventually, Jester and I headed down in search of the pig gnomes.
Now, I have attempted to fin to these before with a small 10l tank using the direct midwater approach. Needless to say, on that occassion I failed. Today was different. I was using a convaluted route, but it meant that I had way-markers.
The route was - plane, podsnap, cannon, pig gnomes. It was fool proof!
As we hit the back wall of the quarry we intentionally turned the wrong way to ensure we hadn't overshot them to the left. We hadn't. We turned back and began swimming watching as out air slowly dwindled.
Then, they appeared. They were impressive. Giant dancing pigs and gnomes, lot's of gnomes. We hung around for a wee bit before beginning a journey back that took us by the Candida, the Helo2 before moving up onto the shallow plateau.
We made it back safely, only to find out that we were the only ones willing to squeeze in a third dive. We said goodbye after a snack and headed back in. This time it was a short dive to the Cessna where we were joined by some freedivers. They never came close enough for us to play some fin grabbing tricks on them.... the only downside of the day.
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| Dancing Pig |
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| Dancing Pig |
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| Pride of place |
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| Gnoming |
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| Jester pig groping |
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| Swimming |
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| Cessna |
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| Bowsprit |
excellent recital of the day.
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