Keramas, cameras and seasickness
As I said in my log entry below, Tuesday was the Vernal Equinox in Japan, signalling the start of Spring. The seasons play a big role here and consequently that day is a public holiday. So I decided to spend the day diving, and went off on a diving boat to the Keramas (a set of islands to the west of Okinawa). It was an eventful day, as you will see.
We headed off from the port near Sunabe at around 9am. By the way, if someone finds a pair of sea legs then please let me know as I seem to have lost mine from the Maldives! Started to feel sick about 50 minutes into the trip, and stopping to look at migrating whales didn’t help things. But I got to the dive sites in pretty much one piece, and had fun chatting to the natives (a couple from Tokyo who had come down to dive, and who were amazed that I could speak any Japanese at all!). The dives themselves were pretty good, with decent visibility and lots of fish out.
And a spotters badge must go to Heather, who saw this stonefish lying in wait in a bunch of coral. Can you make it out?
Got back to the port in mid-afternoon and I stayed out as I was meeting a friend that evening. Eventually got in at 11pm, tired and just wanting to go straight to bed. Started to unload my dive gear and the suddenly realised the bag with my camera and underwater housing wasn’t in my car. I freaked out and hardly slept on Tuesday night. Spent Wednesday calling the other people in the dive group, and only at the end of the day managed to find out that someone had put it in their van by mistake. I was so relieved! Note to self - put your name and contact details on things in the future. So all’s well and me and my camera live to tell another tale.
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Fantastic shots mate - making me so jealous here!
The expression on the fish’s face is priceless!
Glad you got your camera back. I used to have an expensive weight belt and harness - the packs with the weights in them cost about 25 quid with the whole thing costing about 70.
My wieghts and I were parted during a somersault at the bottom of Stoney Cove. I went one way, and the weights went another. had to buy a whoe new harness!
We live and learn from our mistakes!
We certainly do. That sucks about the harness, but equipment can always be replaced; if the harness had come off and you’d rocketed to the surface from a distance then you might have been in trouble.
And I do like the fish’s facial expression in that shot too!