Day 4 – 3/29/12
The night was long and I still couldn’t sleep past 6. The
view of the night sky every night was a beautiful change of pace from the light
polluted sky at Camp Lemonnier. This morning would start off with the best dive
of the trip. ‘Sec De Ca Pass’ or ‘Le Sec aux Boutres’ is a reef that comes up
from the surrounding deep in the middle of the Gulf of Tadjoura on the approach
to Lake Ghoubet. Since it’s surrounded by deeper water, there is no silt to
knock down the visibility and you could see the reef, sitting 90 feet below,
from the surface. Unfortunately, by this time, I had almost stopped taking
pictures and was shooting video. You’ll have to wait for the video to see it.
After the dive, we returned to the Deli for breakfast and
some sunglasses took a plunge over the side. I grabbed a mask and saw them
slowly settling below but could not reach them without fins. By the time anyone
had full snorkel gear, they had disappeared. Much discussion was had and
despite the odds, Christine and I took off in search of the glasses below. The
bets started against us but no one would take my side. Too bad these bets
occurred after we had left because I would have gladly taken up the bet. Two
minutes later, the glasses were found and I had a name for the location of our
previous days, night-dive.
After our victory breakfast, we headed to ‘Stony Cove’. This
was another great dive. The reef was full of life. There was a friendly turtle that swam by to check us out. We spent almost an hour enjoying the sites and
finished it off with a faceoff.
The last dive of the day would take us back to ‘Ras Korali’.
The dive started off with photos from both sides of a huge pufferfish. There
were more eels and a four legged starfish. I found an Octopus pretending to be
the reef and finally gave up hoping he was going to catch a meal while I
videoed.
The dive ended and it was time to head back to
port. It was a great trip and the best way I could think of to take some time
away from the day-to-day at Camp. I highly recommend it if you’re ever stuck in
Djibouti.
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