The night was a long one again, when the wind died down at about 3am the boat was sideways to the waves part of the time and I had to get up, turn on the lights, and store things in the salon so that they wouldn't bang and roll around. In the morning I decided to make it a diving day, with two trips to the little island called Île Créole in order to practice my bouyancy control and picture taking at easy depths of 10-20 feet. The pictures below show the results from two dives - each lasting an hour and with 2000 out of 3000 psi remaining in the tanks, I only stoped the dives when I realized that I was getting a bit chilled.
Filling the tanks went quickly and without effort, I ran the genset to make water, heat the water reservoir for a hot shower, boil some edamame on the stovetop, do a load in the dishwasher and charge the batteries while running the Bauer compressor.

The Ikelite housing and flash containing my D7000 camera and today's lens - a 35mm primary with a +2 diopter screw-on attachment. (2012-02-04 12:39:50 PENTAX Optio WS80 [f/3.8, 1/160s] ISO 64)	It is time for me to clean the bottom of my dinghy before it becomes a real biotope. [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	What I think is a Porgy foraging at the bottom. [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	I could see the shrimp and the little fish seemed to be guarding the entrance; unfortunately I cannot find it in my fish identification book. [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]
This shrimp took a long time before deciding to come back out for a look and I was lucky to catch it before it once again disappeared. [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	I fond this cleaning station by accident and saw several small shrimp cleaning fish and others waiting, unfortunately after this shot the snapper zoomed away. [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	This squirrelfish was hiding along the side of a rock in the shade and I almost missed it. [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	I am fairly certain that this is one of the goby family. Well, kind-of sort-of and I couldn't find anything closer in the book. [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]
These miniscule cleaning Goby are hard to catch as they go from motionless to -gone- in a millisecond. [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	A Wrasse (I think) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	A scrawled filefish (what a name!) on the bottom at Grand Case. [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	Colorful parrotfish [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]
Parrotfish in Grand Case [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	A school of Bluestriped Grunt along the rockface at Ile Creole in Grand Case, St. Martin [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	This is an Ocean Surgeonfish (I think) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	A Gray Angelfish foraging for food. [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]
Juvenile Parrotfish [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	Ocean Surgeonfish [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	A Trumpetfish hovering beside me. [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	Bluestriped grunts hovering [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]
A juvenile hogfish posing for the camera after playing hard to get - it took some time and patience of waiting on the bottom for it to approach. [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	This is the only picture that turned out, as the ray was busy checking out his territory and wouldn't approach me. [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	This lizardfish took a long time to approach - the bottom was sandy ahead of it, so I dropped to the bottom, waited a couple of minutes, then inched closer to get a shot. [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]