The highlights were swimming alongside turtles and seeing a huge Box Puffer fish (about 2ft long and wide). Also later, while sitting aboard Otahi we saw several Rays casually swimming past.
Later that afternoon while on deck, we saw a dinghy drifting along towards us, the driver desperately trying to start the engine and the three other women starting to look more than a little worried. After several failed attempts to get a rope to them it was my turn to play ‘hero’. It took a while to get them traveling in the right direction due to large chop and strong winds, with my little 5hp engine struggling to pull an additional larger dinghy with 4 people. I eventually got them back to their Catamaran where they invited me around for a ‘thank you’ drink that evening.
With deteriorating conditions (wind & waves) we decided to call on the French Catamaran slightly early and were immediately greeted and sat down to ‘drinks & nibbles’. After some introductions we learned that there was the captain (Gilles) and his wife (Nancy) who owned the catamaran and two divers (Alain & Phillipe) and their wives. Alain & Phillipe travel the world on their more than regular holidays documenting and taking the most amazing pictures of the worlds oceans and its wildlife. Their website is going live in March – http://www.subreportages.com/ .
After lots of conversation, slideshows and drinks we finally left around 8pm after being invited to visit them in the south of France for some diving. It had been a busy day and we went straight to bed.
The next morning (Sunday 8th) we were woken by the Tobago Cays Ranger who was collecting park fees and we paid our $40ec for our two nights. I was feeling really lethargic, almost like I was suffering the beginnings of a cold and so spent the day reading and relaxing on Doris. The others went for a day trip to the nearby island of Petit Bateau where they climbed the small ‘mountain’ and generally explored.
Late afternoon I received a call over the VHF that they were back aboard Otahi and I took over some sausages, beers and rum to compliment the egg, chips and beans cooked by Freya. We ate dinner on Otahi’s deck under a crystal clear sky and almost full moon.
Later that afternoon while on deck, we saw a dinghy drifting along towards us, the driver desperately trying to start the engine and the three other women starting to look more than a little worried. After several failed attempts to get a rope to them it was my turn to play ‘hero’. It took a while to get them traveling in the right direction due to large chop and strong winds, with my little 5hp engine struggling to pull an additional larger dinghy with 4 people. I eventually got them back to their Catamaran where they invited me around for a ‘thank you’ drink that evening.
With deteriorating conditions (wind & waves) we decided to call on the French Catamaran slightly early and were immediately greeted and sat down to ‘drinks & nibbles’. After some introductions we learned that there was the captain (Gilles) and his wife (Nancy) who owned the catamaran and two divers (Alain & Phillipe) and their wives. Alain & Phillipe travel the world on their more than regular holidays documenting and taking the most amazing pictures of the worlds oceans and its wildlife. Their website is going live in March – http://www.subreportages.com/ .
After lots of conversation, slideshows and drinks we finally left around 8pm after being invited to visit them in the south of France for some diving. It had been a busy day and we went straight to bed.
The next morning (Sunday 8th) we were woken by the Tobago Cays Ranger who was collecting park fees and we paid our $40ec for our two nights. I was feeling really lethargic, almost like I was suffering the beginnings of a cold and so spent the day reading and relaxing on Doris. The others went for a day trip to the nearby island of Petit Bateau where they climbed the small ‘mountain’ and generally explored.
Late afternoon I received a call over the VHF that they were back aboard Otahi and I took over some sausages, beers and rum to compliment the egg, chips and beans cooked by Freya. We ate dinner on Otahi’s deck under a crystal clear sky and almost full moon.
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