As we were riding out to the dive site, Les indicated that he needed to go to the rest room really bad.  It didn't matter that there was a head below deck.   Les could not wait until he was in the water to relieve himself.  As soon as the captain started slowing the boat down at the dive site, Les jumped overboard.

Our captain was furious.  Les had just committed a major breach of etiquette.  Les relieved himself, but got reamed out when he climbed back aboard.  The captain told him in no uncertain terms to never ever do that on board his boat ever again.

I was surprised when we started getting ready for the dive.  Lexie said that she wanted to dive today.  I thought after the previous day's experience that Lexie would rather snorkel.  It made me feel good to know that she was going to give it another try.

Linn, John, and Al did the giant stride into the water.  As usual, I was one of the last.  I was glad that the more giant strides I did, the less apprehensive I was.  My form still needed improving, but I was sure that would come over time.

Lexie was also in the water at this point.  She had another mask issue that Les was working with her.  Al asked me if I was ready to descend.  I said that I wanted to make sure that Lexie was Okay first.  Al started going down.  I then realized that Lexie was in Les's control so I followed Al down.

The first order of business on this dive was an organized group photo.  We found a clear sandy spot and knelt down for the photo.  I have always felt that these posed photos are the most difficult part of diving.  I find myself floating away.  We held each other hand in hand and managed to keep everybody down.  This was a much better group photo than we had achieved the day before.

After the photo we headed out over the reef exploring.  Once again I found myself floating to the top.  I was really frustrated.  Nothing that I seemed to do would bring me back down to the bottom.  Les finally noticed my predicament and gave me a couple of pounds of extra weights.  This allowed me to rejoin the group on the bottom.

The grade of the bottom seemed to go up from where we started.  Linn was leading the way and went farther and farther.  I wished that we could have proceeded a little more slowly.  I found an overhang of coral.  Underneath this overhang were tons of fish seeking refuge from the currents and waves.  It was an amazing feeling to be part of this.  I noticed a trumpet fish was underneath there.  I wanted to linger and just breath in the site.   My diving companions were moving on though, so I had to move on.

We found another sandy bottom.  Linn motioned to Lexie to go inverted.  Lexie and Linn posed for Les's video standing upside down.  I would have like to have joined them, but knew that there was no way that I had enough coordination to pull off the stunt.  John, who had tons of diving experience, then showed us how it was really done.  Effortlessly he did a one arm hand stand.

We explored more and Al asked me to do a pressure check.  I check my gauge and I had already reached the 800 PSI limit.  Technically Lexie was my dive buddy, but I saw that she was paired up with Lexie exploring.  Al indicated that we should go up.  I felt bad switching off from Lexie, but I knew that Linn would take care of her.

Al and I got back to the surface.  I scanned the surface and found the boat.  It was a fair way off, but I knew that it was easily within reach if we swam just below the surface.  Al and I got back to the boat.  He made sure that I got back on board safely.  He took such good care of me.  I climbed back up the ladder.  Al decided that he would explore a little more just under the boat.  I felt bad that he had to come back just for me when he had plenty of air left.

On the boat, it was just me, the Captain, and his deck hand.  All the other people, Dee, Marilyn, and Mary were off snorkeling.  I was happy that Mary finally reached enough of a comfort level that she could snorkel.

One by one, our adventurers returned.  I was relieved when Lexie came back on board.   Al came back.  Mary came back.  Finally Linn, John and Les came back.