Captain’s Log – Thu 5/15/25
A perfect morning for diving, about 5kts of wind and wind and under 1’ swell on the reef with an occasional roller. This weather isn’t any good for sailing, but perfect for spending time snorkeling around which is what we wanted to do this week.
We used the snubas to dive the Christ of the Abyss statue at Dry Rocks reef. We grabbed the 3rd mooring ball from the South side of the reef on the outside. I took a compass bearing from the boat to the marker, then we descended and swam towards it. It was an incredibly majestic sight as we crossed the reef to see the statue on the other side. What an experience. Unfortunately there was a go pro malfunction and the experience is stored in my head only. I did manage to get a few photos though.
The statue of Christ is covered in Fire Coral, so even if the holy water doesn’t burn you when entering a cathedral, touching this will!
As we were leaving the statue, a flock of demonic looking devil rays swam by. Everything was very surreal.
We had lunch and moved on to the Grecian Rocks site. It’s super shallow so we just snorkeled here. There was an incredible amount of colorful coral and fish here, even a sleeping shark. Shh… be very quiet and move along.
The sea breeze started to fill in as we headed towards our anchorage late afternoon. This turned out to be fortuitous because the engine overheated as we were getting ready to head into the anchorage, which we normally drop sails for and do under power. This time we had to sail through the other boats, furl, turn into the wind and drop anchor under sail. We nailed it! It was disappointing that there was no one to witness our prowess.
I’m decided to leave the repair for morning. Hopefully a simple impeller change. 🤞
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