Chris18 wrote:
Not lately, and I probably won't dive, but I'm going to Grand Cayman this summer with the family. That's where I was certified. Funny thing is, years ago we found far more marine life diversity on the reefs outside the hotel in like 8' of water than going down 100'. My brother's ex-wife didn't dive, so we snorkeled around with her, showing her stuff we saw on dives (and then some). So we're all bringing mask, fins & snorkels and will swim around the reef by the hotel. I'm expecting bleaching, but am hoping to still see good stuff.
I dove at "stingray city" there years ago, where you can feed the stingrays. My kids want to do it. My wife wants no part of it.
But we are going to try to do one of those pirate ship cruises where you can hop in for stingray feeding, diving or snorkeling.
I asked my kids if they want to learn to dive. They don't. Fine with me. Too expensive!
I do miss it though. Some of the most relaxed moments in my life were underwater. And some of the scariest. But I prefer to remember the relaxed ones.
Kinda funny, stingrays are really quite gentle creatures. They get a really bad rap.
Both the wife and I are STILL having issues with our ears two weeks after our last dive. Probably a result of us both having some minor sinus issues because it being allergy season, two kids in daycare bringing home every strain of ailment that affects the ENT-area, age, etc. We talked at length with a guy who's been diving for 40+ years and did a few dives with us, was telling me a place he went to--forget the name--where he and his buddy did an insane amount of dives in a short time, so many in fact they had to do them with Nitrox. And here my wife and I are with eardrums beat to shit after FIVE dives over the course of a week.