Saturday we set out to do out first dive of the trip. That includes finding all the gear in the room, and checking it out to make sure there are no spiders in the regulators! As usual, we ran into some obstacles. The first was that the tanks we have are in Fernando's shop and he is in Mexico City...no problem we got those out...but they were not full. The guy who fills doesn't show up until 4pm so that option was out...luckily Zero Gravity has this really cool fill station that is now up an running, so the plan was to beat feet down there. We will also check with Xibalba to see if they fill on demand.
Our third hurdle was remembering where we keep the key that opens up the case with our primary lights in it...hard to dive without those. We go through this every time and last time we specifically came up with a solution which we would always remember....hahaaaa. We remembered but it took awhile. Finally gear was loaded and off we went to get fills and afternoon diving....lunch at Cas Cenote first, sans maragitas because we were diving..only Coca lights.
Our first dive was in Zacil (the back part of Carwash). They had a birthday fiesta going on but they caretaker said we could dive...so we provided a bit of the entertainment apparently. We choose to go to the Room of Tears and maybe to Dreamland which is really cool and tannic. As a first dive it is great because you have to work all the time and fine tune your buoyancy quickly....plus it is a really nice cave. We ended up not going to Dreamland, but took the T to the left, then another T to the right, then another T to the left until we hit the end of the line.
Mission accomplished, we are back in the caves!
On to rebreather shakedown dive tomorrow at Gran Cenote.
On a side note, each day we drive by Camillo and the gates are open....could be a good sign as Fernando said he could not get ahold of the owner.
Another side note; there are new owners to the hamburger stand in front of Fernando's. We chose to eat there last night. Burgers are really good grilled over charcoal and they grill vegetables and potatoes too. Quite a feast for very few pesos....and really tasty. The girl is from Spain and the guy is from Mexico, it is fun talking to people from other countries. Apparently Spain is in a bit of an ecomonic crisis as well.
Happy Sunday, we are going diving!!
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4 comments:
Sounds like things went well the first dive day given the seemingly endless possibilities of complications. Really enjoy your blog.
It is Bill not Gary (too many blog ID's)
So is Gary your evil twin? Glad you are enjoying the blog.
My favorite part of this blog is hearing your voice in my head, Karen...and you're laughing that starlight laugh of yours and it's wonderful.
I can't tell you how much fun it is to read your descriptions and see all the photos. Although you really need to give our eyes a rest and let John take more photos of you. ;-)
I'm kayaking around with sealions in SoCal and imagining you following lines in Mexican caves. I LOVE this world!
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