Anjelica asked me where was my favorite dive. This is a question I get a lot. And the answer if not that simple. Diving is a series of moments in time and I have been lucky to have had a number special moments over the past forty years of diving. Like many divers, there is still something special about my first open water dive. No it was not somewhere exotic nor was the water particularly clear. But it was my first time to breath underwater and to see what was really there up close. My first dives were in Possum Kingdome Lake near Ft Worth and it was a cold, rainy day in March. But there was something so special about that day and that experience that I can still picture in my head today.
I remember some spectacular dives in Fiji where Ann and I spent our honeymoon. The corals were alive with color and seemed to go on forever. The While Wall remains one of my favorite dives in all of Fiji. It is a wall of blue-white corals that open in a current to feed and completely cover the wall from forty-five feet to one-hundred twenty feet. A truly spectacular sight.
Indonesia holds a lot of memories with schoold of bait fish swishing back and forth in various formations (remember that scene from Finding Nemo?) The schools of jacks and barracuda are entrancing at Mary’s Island in the Solomon Islands.
There are lots of stories but instead of only hearing mine, I would love to hear yours. Please take a moment and let me know about your favorite dives and help answer Anjelica’s question.
