Great Time with Martin

Our dive guide all week was a fellow named Martin, grandfather of two children. Today there were too few divers so we were regrouping. Our dive "shepherd" from Springfield could not dive with us today since his five days were done. So we decided to hire Martin as our personal dive master, which was wonderful. We wanted him to teach us our skills better and show us things on a more personal basis. Our first dive was a wall with swim throughs. Very rugged looking, like mountain passes in the alps underwater. We saw a huge crab and a regular size lobster (Caribbean lobsters do not have the large claws). We also saw a Lion Fish, which is a real ecology disaster in the Caribbean. They eat so many of the smaller fish and are destroying the reefs. They are not native here. Possibly someone dumped their fish from their aquarium. The locals kill them any time they see one. This one got away.
Our second dive was a bit of a thrill for us. A smaller cruise ship was illegally anchored in the dive area where we were. It had to back out and turned on its engines (after we had begun our dive). The turbulance created a current that we had to swim against. Walt really sucked air and Martin wanted to find a sea horse or two for us, so Walt conserved his remaining air and shared air from Martin and Karen so that we could all stay below longer. It was a shallow area, so no problems. We liked having him along, we asked him to do it again Saturday for our last two dives (boo, hoo). Even though it was his day off, he agreed to go out with us. This coming week is supposed to be slow for the dive resort, so Martin told us he can take a different day off. He didn't think we needed him, since it would be easy dives, but Karen will feel better having him with us. Which I agree.
The afternoon was spent shopping and Karen managed to find a few small things to buy.
Our group we are down here with from Aqua Sports leaves tomorrow morning while we will be down here two more days, flying back on Monday. We are looking forward to the cooler weather, it was just so hot today. Hear you have had some precipitation in the area.
We will be praying for Dr. Karl Young as he brings this message on Sunday. He is just a great man of God, he will bless you richly and you will be glad to be in church.