Well, on the other side of the world, the sun is shining, the birds are
singing, the sea is flat, there is no wind, and the port is closed and there
is therefore no diving.  Not even the ferry from the mainland is running and
they are getting ready to close the airport both here and in Cancun. Keith
will probably miss but not by a lot.

CH
-----Original Message-----
From: David Strike <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, September 29, 2000 10:55 PM
Subject: [SCUBA-SE] This morning's dive


>We're still at the beginning of spring but the temperature's already up in
>the mid-thirties (Celsius) and - this morning at least - there's not a
cloud
>in the sky.
>
>On this morning's dive at Shelly Beach we hit an outgoing tide with
>visibility reduced to 6 -8 metres at best.  Needless to say this was the
day
>I elected to take my camera back into the water, the first time since the
>"Great Flood of '99" when I discovered that a Nikonos V holds in excess of
>$680 worth of sea water. <BWG>
>
>As well as a small, dusky coloured lionfish we spotted a couple of male
>weedy seadragons carrying eggs, five Port Jackson sharks - a couple of
which
>allowed me to lie alongside of them while I took pictures - and two
>wobbegongs.
>
>Today there wasn't much else worth commenting on apart from a large school
>of Ladder-Finned Pomfrets, that have been absent from the reef for the past
>few weeks and a single medium sized catfish.
>
>But at least we got wet and I did notice that walking back up the hill
after
>the dive was a hell of a lot easier breathing 39% O2. :-)
>
>Strike
>