Being somewhat of a recluse, I'm rarely exposed to coughs, colds and all of
those other things that people who commute and work in a crowdwd office are
exposed to.

On Saturday morning I woke up feeling as though some bugs had made a detour
past my office!  :-)

I still, however, went diving.  (It was an opportunity to escape my
day-to-day environment!)  :-)

It was a beautiful morning.  The sea was calm.  The sky was blue.  The sun
was warm.  There were only five of us.  Dave and Eddie buddied together;
Birdo, (Sorry!  I can't get used to calling him 'Bird'), and Simon were the
second buddy pair; and I was just going along for the ride with the
intention of bailing out early - but nominally buddied with Birdo and Simon!

(Leaving to one side that I forgot to turn my air on - and had to 'whisper'
to Birdo to come and do the honours <BWG> - it was a pleasant entry in water
that stood at about 22 deg. C.)

I drifted along for  a while until Dave pointed out that Simon had had an
equipment problem and that he and Birdo were heading back to shore together.
I turned around and surfaced close to Simon and Birdo.  Simon had a problem
that wasn't correctable in the water.  We watched him exit and then Birdo
and I set off for a, 'just below-the-surface dip' to look for seahorses
among the sea grass beds.

It was - despite feeling like shit - the most enjoyable underwater
experience.  Focussing on the grass in our search for seahorses, we
discovered a couple of octopus - one 'running' along the seabed; a beautiful
shell whose critter was attemting to burrow into the silt and displayed a
magnificent blue mantle; two juvenile flutemouths; a strange looking
pipe-fish; several swimming sea anemones in the juvenile form; and other
bits and pieces.

On the further side of the bay we swam among schools of seapike - very
different from the ones only a few hundred metres away in the area where we
nornmally dive; Mados; stripeys; trevally and ladder-finned pomfrets.  It's
an area where grey-nurse sharks have - once again - started to be seen.  OK!
We didn't see anything quite that good - but it was, nevertheless,
delightful to just get wet and appreciate just how blessed we are living so
close to interesting waters!  :-)

('Course!  I suffered for it today, with sniffles and coughs!)  :-)

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