Location: Muskmelon Bay, Guana Island
To start the truly eventful day today, we all woke up to some music in Marina Key, along with the whole AQ fleet. Shortly following our wake-up, all of the staff dipped out to attend a meeting while Amelia worked hard on our absolutely delicious pancake breakfast. When they got back, we left our anchorage and got underway to start an awesome day of diving. I obviously threw on my captain hat for our sail over to our first dive site while having a great time hanging out with Matt and the rest of the squad in the power tower. Once we arrived at the small island cluster called The Dogs, we got all kitted up for our fun dive at the Shark-Planeo, which is an underwater art exhibit. It consisted of a bridge made of dock lines and three small planes that looked like sharks, as the name would suggest. Also, very conveniently, I was wearing my Shark-Planeo rash guard that I got in Road Turn last year, making everyone super jealous of my crazy style.
Nonetheless, we all had an awesome time getting into the plane together, taking our fins off to pretend to run on the sand, and having a great time taking pictures together in crystal-clear water. Also, it’s worth noting that Player and I had a particularly extensive photo shoot together. I extend my greatest thanks to Daria, Grace, and Tommy for their camerawork as well. Oh, and also, Player and I saw Tommy walking upside-down in the sand, only using his fingers which sounds wild for me to say and was even more wild to see.
After that absolute blast of a dive, we headed out again. However, This time, we had our sails set toward Musk Melon, a super beautiful island with a reef right off its tiny rocky beach. Much to our excitement, once we had arrived, we were told that whoever wanted to go for a night dive had the option to do so after we finished our emergency o2 provider workbook and after we had all snorkeled what would be our dive site. After we had done both of those things, we had another banger meal which was the notably popular chili. After we all had pigged out, we went to the bow to watch the sunset and do the titanic pose before Grace, Daria, Daniel, Oliver, Player, and I got our dive gear on for the highly anticipated night dive. Right when we got down and swam over to the reef, we saw a ton of cool stuff. By the time we had finished the dive, we had seen an eel, a massive grouper, some tarpon, and a lionfish, and Player even pointed out an octopus. It was a super memorable dive to close out the day, and now as I write this, everyone is playing the BVI edition of Monopoly on the blue lagoon. Today was definitely the top 1 dive day of all time for me personally. I know we’re all hyped for what tomorrow will bring.