Scuba Diving

We woke up fairly early and cooked breakfast. We wanted to eat in enough time to digest before scuba diving. We got out early and got to the dive shop around 8:30. That gave us time to find parking in Lahaina and get fitted for our wetsuits and gear. We were diving with Pacific Dive which is one of the few diving outfits that will do intro dives on Maui. We aren't certified and haven't spent our time to do that so we have to do resort dives which have much higher dive instructor to diver ratios (we had 2 instructors and 3 people on our dive).


After getting fitted for our gear, we drove up north to our dive spot and parked and got into our wetsuits and bcs. We walked down to the shore, and then into the water. After donning our fins, we kicked out to a buoy, dropped our dive flag and donned our masks and regulators. Then we slowly descended to the ocean floor. We got to the floor and hung out there for a bit to get situated, stow extra weight and then get moving. We were going to follow a sand channel in the coral north for about 30 minutes and then turn around and come back.



We got started kicking and were quickly rewarded with a school of fish. It was a pretty good situation to have 2 instructors because we had one in front looking for stuff and one behind us also trying to find things for us. We saw a wide variety of fish and coral and the like. We swam out about 25 minutes and took a read on our remaining oxygen and turned around. We started swimming back along the channel and picked up on a lot of things we missed on the first pass.


Megan was really excited to see not one, but two eels. You can see the one we caught on film right in the middle of the coral. It was surprising to see the huge variety we saw over the same path on one way and the way back. We got back to our dive flag and surfaced up. Once I got to the surface, I took off my regulator, upped my buoyancy and then my stomach started to get upset. I had been sick the last time I was scuba diving, but that was because I had been drinking too much the night before. This time I just got seasick on the surface with the big waves coming in.

We kicked onto shore and I immediately started to feel better. After getting rid of our gear, we headed down to costco to develop our film. It was only 14 dollars to develop our underwater camera and our hang gliding roll which included getting digital copies of each of them. It is amazing how dependent we are on digital photos now. Megan and I realized we haven't developed film since our New Zealand trip about 3 years ago. Costco luckily does 1 hour film development so we dropped it off, swung by a mall so Megan could look at a pet store and a few other stores in the mall. After killing enough time, we came back, got our film and headed up to Lahaina.

We wandered around downtown and stopped at a restaurant on the water so we could get some lunch, some drinks and watch the Cavaliers game. Megan got an amazing coconut encrusted ahi while we watched the tight game and consumed some blended beverages. At half time, we headed back up to our hotel where we napped for a bit and then went out to hang out by the sea to get some sun. We brought our wedding book and magazines and looked through a ton of venues to limit them down.

After we watched the sunrise, we headed back to the room and took out our computer and looked at pictures of a lot of the locations and contacted the ones we liked. Megan was really starting to feel sick so we headed over to ABC to get her some decongestant and allergy relief. After she took them she passed out. I woke her up a few hours later to have some ice cream and then we went to sleep.