Night Dive
Current mood: awake

this is an excert from my email to Bruce about my night dive on the 20th of July!

I got back from my night dive and it was really fun. we went on one dive
at dusk and one at night... both dives were great. I did not see as many
shells though.... usually i see more shells on the ocean floor. a lot
had occupants in them...but on the first dive we saw some good sized
lobsters and some striped sea bass... crabs and the usual sea life.

on the night dive we had our flashlights and it was really fantastic. We
went out in a group and we saw some more lobsters--they came out and
were kind of agressive.... they were more willing to defend themselves
at night and one decided to have a "stand-off" with my dad's knee, cause
it was moving close to him. then we saw some flounders, and some
skates--- look like rays or something like that. then we saw a
dogfish--looks like a 2 foot long shark. lol.... it swam right into my
face. i got a good look at it. i also saw a sea raven and it ate a
little fish right in front of me... it was kind of creepy...i did not
get a photo but this is what they look like:
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/times/summer2004/red%20sea%20raven.jpg

i also got more photos of the moon. recently I've taken to photographing
the moon and clouds at night and at the ocean i took some photos of the
moon at the horizon... it was a flaming orange color. very pretty.... i
also took some more when i got home.

it was nice though because i got to sit on the beach and watch the moon
from there... it was kind of romantic in feeling... except for the
fact that i was in all my scuba gear.... for 2 seconds i was like "this
is what i wished for the other night"

well that's it... next journey is tommrow! a trip to targer (tjar-jeat), and a nature walk with janean and shannon! hate-ure of nature!

lol