As most of you know, I am in Maui on my way to Australia. I have been doing some diving here, but not as much as I initially had planned as my body is continually plagued with injuries. The latest came on a dive last week I did with my cousin, Luis, where I cut my ankles pretty deep with my own fins. Nice! This would not normally be a big deal, but wounds never seem to heal when you are going in the ocean daily and I am terrified of Staph.
Despite this, the dive was incredible. We saw schooling spotted eagle rays, a moray eel and a cleaning station with at least 15 turtles in a twenty foot radius. We were at a site called Mala Ramp, which is an old concrete pier that was hit by a hurricane and sunk. It is now a bunch of broken, twisted metal and concrete that is reminiscent of WWII battle torn Europe images, but covered with coral and fish. Pretty Awesome.
I took Luis there to see sharks. This was the only time I have never seen a shark at that spot. Though we did not see sharks, the rays more than made up for it. However, I did dive the site a few days before Luis and I went and did see sharks. In addition, I was able to spot numerous nudibranchs. Images from these and other recent dives can be seen on the side bar, but there are much more on my flickr site, which can be found by clicking the photos.
Other than that, everyone in the zajac family is doing well. Frank is working hard, Marian is heading to the main land to see her family and Luis is dillegently working away at his SAT studies.
I am getting pumped for my work in Australia. Below is an actual quote from the Univeristy's coordinator that I received the other day regarding ordering food while there, which is a big deal because a barge only visits the island once every two weeks. Planning seems essential, but thus far this is the only information I have received, if that says anything about how cool Australians are.
"This is probably THE most strenuous part of a Lizard trip, working out your booze budget cos you absolutely, under pain of death DON’T want to run out before the barge gets there otherwise you’ll be drinking straight ethanol out of a plastic bucket wishing to hell you’d ordered just one more case of beer…..then afterwards running around naked with your underwear on your head cos you just drank a PLASTIC BUCKET of ethanol."
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