Well, what can I saw about the final day's diving for me? We went out with Bobby Jo, the owner of Diving Safaris in Playa Hermosa, and re-dived The Point and The Wall. There were no exciting incidents this time, apart from me having a little trouble getting my weight right in the school BCD and with a weight belt, and the visibility was very poor with very, very strong surge and currents. Two half hour dives that were cut quite short due to the conditions, and left me feeling a bit sad that that was the end of my diving for the holiday, later, and we headed back to Playa Hermosa on the boat, packing up our kit as we went.....
.... and then I had the most amazing experience of my life. Literally hundreds and hundreds of devil rays (mobula rays, a relation of the eagle ray) that look just like mini-manta rays and breach, or jump, out of the water, twisting onto their backs and landing with a satisfying "splash" in the ocean. They were feeding on the plancton that had caused such poor visibility, circling round and round by the boat, their wing tips sticking out of the water as if hundreds of teeny sharks were circling prey....
Bobby Jo was the first to throw on her snorkel and fins, followed by us when we were assured it was safe to snorkel, and it was just like being in the midst of a 'brought to life' National Geographic picture!
As we floated about at the surface marveling at these amazing creatures, another pair of humpback whales breached on the other side of the boat. Our screams of delight must have been heard in Nicaragua!!
An unbelievable end to an unbelievable first ocean dive experience.......
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