Mike and I woke up at 4:30 this morning to get on the road and head to Playa Santa in the Guanica province. We were tired, but we were pumped for our first scuba diving trip in Puerto Rico.
We arrived at the marina (never making a wrong turn, by the way!) at around 7, and Mike schlepped our gear to the dock.
I mean, I carried the bag later in the day, and it wasn't that heavy. Just kidding, that ish was crazy heavy!
The other 2 people on our trip no-showed, so we were off.
It was an absolutely gorgeous morning! We knew it was going to be a good day, and we were ready to get the show on the road!
Our first dive was at a spot called Fallen Rock. Before we began the dive, I needed a bit of a refresher on the mechanics. The last time I dove was almost 6 years ago, and I wasn't exactly confident. After a bit of a stutter-start, we were 55 ft below the water, floating above the coral reef. We coasted around checking out the reef before we took to the wall. The wall is where the reef dropped off to over 1500 feet. We hovered at about 80-90 ft, and saw some pretty great stuff. Mike got in a little bit of trouble from the dive master for going too far down, but on his way back up, he did spot the first of about 5 green moray eels we would see. Soon, Pancho, the angel fish, found us and followed us around for the rest of the dive. Pancho was content to hover just a few feet above us, playing in our air bubbles and flirting with the boys. We also saw quite a few lion fish, which are beautiful, but apparently destroying the reef. The lion fish eat the native fish and disrupt the ecosystem. During the 50 minute dive, we also spotted a lobster and a couple of barracuda. (These aren't our pictures, as we didn't have an underwater camera, but this is a sampling of what we saw.)
We surfaced for an hour before making our way to Las Posas for our second dive. Las Posas was a relatively shallow dive. We stayed at around 50 ft, and explored more of the reef looking for nurse sharks and more reef fish. We didn't spot any sharks, but the visibility was so great, and the colors of the fishies were so bright, that it made up for it. We spied french angelfish, banded butterflyfish, spotfin butterflyfish, a 4-5 ft barracuda, yellowtail snapper, schools of french grunts, sargeant majors, blowfish, a baby spotted moray eel (and when I say baby, I mean teeny tiny), and so much more!
Given that today is Miami Gameday, I threw the U some love and Mike about lost his regulator from laughing so hard!
No, that's not me, but it's kinda fantastic that this is in our new Miami commercial so I'm totally stealing it!
Today was just a really great day day. And while we wished we had an underwater camera, it is on our shopping list. For now, these are a few iPhone photos we took on the boat. Such a gorgeous day. Such a great dive. Such a Monday Funday!
Until next time, peace out from the Millers
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