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Sunday, August 16, 2015

Spain: Day 4 - L'Estartit Dive #4

July 6th

Today was our last dive.  We went to Dolfì Nord again.  There was a large group with us, but we had Francesc again and it would just be the three of us.  Since this was our last dive, and I wasn't having panic attacks anymore, we were going to do the Dolphin Cave.


Getting ready!  
The boat was packed.  As you can see I'm squeezed between a lot of diving equipment.

On our way to the dive site.

The Dolphin Cave is not actually a cave; it's a tunnel.  Something like the 4th rule of diving is don't cave dive unless you have special training.  People die.   So I was glad that it was actually a tunnel (and one that I could see the other side of) and not a cave.

Jumping in!

The sea floor is....not terribly exciting.

This one's new!
I think it's a Banded Butterfly fish.

Dolphin Cave (Tunnel)!  That light spot in the middle is the other side.

Me and Francesc with the Dolphin.

Dan and Me with the Dolphin.

The Dolphin plaque.

The crescent like tunnel we explored. 

The crescent had a little surface access.

A Dusky Grouper hiding and about to get bubbled.

I feel like I should be singing songs from the Little Mermaid.

Swimming out of the crescent.

Still swimming out of the crescent.

Weee!  Diving!

Hey it's a Seabream!  

Dusky Grouper.

Little fishies!

A closer look at the little fishies.

Color on the sea walls.  
(That's the string from the camera, not some weird tentacle.) 

An anemone!  Or something like it.


A Dusky Grouper hiding in the rocks.


Coral and the bacterial that make the coral look like its blooming.

In the middle of this photo is a Mediterranean Moray.   Its head is poking out of the ground.


So many little fishies!

On our way to the surface.

Post dive.  
We're on the upper deck.  I wanted to be in the sun and also hide from more potential flopping.

I am super pale.  But I didn't get sunburnt!

Goodbye dive site!

We went back to our hotel, got some lunch and took a nap.  
We then packed up and so we would be ready to dive down to Valencia the next morning.

This concludes our adventure for today and our diving adventures in Spain.