The surf flattened out on the west side so Darryl and I dove at Natural. The seascapes at Natural are just beautiful.
It was an amazing dive. As we descended on the reef, the very first thing we saw was a turtle.
We saw a number of queen angelfish. A couple of years ago we rarely saw queen angels at Natural. I'm happy to say they are becoming more common. This dive we saw at least three different ones. At one point we were swimming with a big queen angelfish and two French angels. Truly amazing!
But that's not the best part of the dive!
About halfway through, just as we were turning to head back, we heard whales singing. I can't describe what that's like 60 feet underwater. Because water is denser than air, sound travels much faster, four times faster than in air. Our ears don't pick up the tiny differences in sound in the water the way they do in air so it's more difficult to tell where sound is coming from. The result is your head is surrounded by the sound. There we were, swimming along, surrounded by whale-song.
The bad part about listening to whales singing when you're underwater (there is a bad part?????) is I don't want to breathe. When you breathe with SCUBA gear, you sound a lot like Darth Vader. When the whales are singing, I don't want to listen to my own Darth Vader sounds. I want to hear the whales! The number one rule of SCUBA diving is "Don't hold your breath!" Well, maybe just for a second.
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