Anniversary Dive

For our 5th wedding anniversary, Brady and Allyssa Cluff and we drove to San Pedro, California for a dive trip with a group of people from the dive shop that we knew. This was a four day trip and we ate and slept on the boat (Sand Dollar) and had a GREAT getaway! Having Brady and Allyssa with us helped to entertain us between dives, especially since they sign and we didn't have our hearing aids on most of the time.

Diving among the kelp was a surreal experience! Sometimes the divers would come face to face with an otter, surprising each other because they'd come around the corner of a kelp bed without warning. The four of us saw an otter resting on a rock, but didn't see any underwater. Jaime and Brady went on a night dive to catch lobsters with their gloved hands and a mesh bag. Jaime caught a lobster, but it was too small to legally keep, so we threw it back in the water. Allyssa and I were already too cold so we just waited on the boat for the boys to come back. The kelp in the dark made me half expect the creature from the black lagoon to come up and grab Allyssa and me!(Jack Arnold, 1954 film)

The cook made sure our meals were on time and were consistently delicious and hot! We were really impressed with him and it was such a relief to have someone else be responsible for that! So NICE! He also had snacks between dives and lots and lots of hot chocolate. An A+ for food security!

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