We both slept very well, but woke up early. We had 3 power outages between 5AM and 530 (I woke up before then even). The power came on nearly immediately though. The sea calmed down a lot overnight. Still higher than usual, but we don't have to do boat dives if we don't want to (I LOVE that!)
We had breakfast and then had the resort and dive op briefing. CoCo View was started something like 25 years ago, and designed to be a liveaboard on land. And that very much what it's like. The only thing that limits your diving is your nitrogen loading and your body.
After we got the logistics on how the dive shop works, we went on an orientation dive with a buoyancy check, skills presentation (basic mask clearing), and then a divemaster led dive of the two walls accessible from the resort plus and good sized wreck. The coral right in front of the resort is pretty beat up, but further away it's in good condition.
After lunch, Jim and I went on our own shore dive (I decided not to do the boat dive after two women who had been on the AM trip said it was really rough). Jim and I had a great time too. Our dive was over and hour. Water temp was in the mid-80s.
A great first day! Right now we're sitting in the club house during happy hour drinking Monkey La La's and listening to the parrot say "hello, hello, hello,", then he SCREAMS "HI!!!" It's pretty funny, but I imagine you have to be here to appreciate it.
The resort has several animals running around. 3 dogs, 2 parrots, a gorgeous scarlet mccaw, and I've heard there's a bunny too, but we haven't seen it.
The seas haven't built up as much this afternoon, so we signed up to go on the 2 tank AM dive tomorrow. Looking forward to it!
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