Re: Anybody Wanna Go Diving?

"Dan Bracuk" wrote

> For those who are coming, see ya next weekend. For now, colour me
> disconnected and out of touch.

Dan's arrived safely at Marathon, and reports overall great sissy
diving. Vis could be better, so requests anyone heading down to bring some
clear water with them. (Wonder if a 5 gallon bucket of 100 foot vis spring
water will help).

However, he's seeing fish, lots of fish. Always a good dive when you
see a fish.

Looking forward to getting south myself.......

Curtis

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:03:27 +0000, "Magilla" wrote:
> Dan's arrived safely at Marathon, and reports overall great sissy
> diving.

I'm in the Ft Lauderdale area right now myself... Grace originally decided
to use her Hyatt points to get a 'free' stay for us for a few days at the
Pier 66 Hyatt... I got there at 23:00 Tuesday evening... I parked fairly
close to the entrance... There was quite a walk to the front desk and a
very long walk to the room... I checked it out... Nice... Nice pool... I
didn't like the fact that my room was in a different county than where I
parked... They even had the nerve to charge $19 per day for parking in
addition to something like a $12 'resort fee'... The final straw was
that the damn refrigerator didn't work... So, I was looking at $31 for a
room that was very inconvenient taking my dive equipment from my truck to
my room to get it ready... I didn't relish the idea of making all those
trips back and forth for the next couple of days, so I walked back down to
the lobby and told them that it was totally unacceptable, to cancel my
room, and I'll go find my own hotel... I don't want much, just a clean
room that doesn't smell like smoke or mold, parking close to my room, and
an air-conditioner that works really good... Either a refrigerator that
works or an ice maker close to the room is also very nice... It didn't
take long to find such a hotel that met these requirements and it wasn't
all that much more than the BS Hyatt charges for parking and 'resort
fee'...

> Looking forward to getting south myself.......

I decided to take I-95 down this time... Went through Jacksonville instead
of taking the tollway and ending up going through Orlando... Had over a
hundred miles of driving in the rain from Jacksonville south... Stopped by
a dive shop in Jacksonville and bought a new horse collar BC so that the
boat won't be able to bitch about me not having a BC for the Sunday
dives... I had been wanting to get one to see if I could rig one up into a
sidemount configuration anyway...