divebunnie

OK so my dive log has been a bit lacking of late.. I hang my head in shame. If it is any consolation, my last written log was back in March.. oops.

Well, Ras Mohammed is once again the place to be at the moment… I haven’t yet seen any of the sharks, but even without the big boys, everything else is just heaving!

The wall of snappers is back, just off Shark Reef, I descended into it the other day which was truly awesome… a little tough to see all my guests mind, as they really had formed a big old wall, and half of my guys were hanging on the opposite side to me.

We have also seen the shoaling masked puffer fish which are totally cuuute! They only gather together for a couple of weeks in the year, and swim around in their usual ungainly fashion as a gang, for a while, before going their separate, solitary ways once again.

Even the local sites are getting good too… I saw a bunch of quite meaty barracudas on Temple the other day, and then in the afternoon descended into the shoal of baby barracudas that usually hangs around the lagoon area, really cool.

So the day finally came when we decided to get Betty (the mother of our kittens) spayed. Two kittens really are enough, and the cat population of Hadaba really doesn’t need any more additions… cruel though it seems.

Having said that, when the time actually came last week to drag the poor lady down to the vet, I felt like a completely evil and twisted butcherer. As it happened, it turned out that she was already up the duff, having got frisky with a boy cat barely weeks after giving birth, and we would have been host to another four babies had we left it a couple of weeks longer!

Thankfully all went well, and after a few gruesome days watching her struggle onto her feet and scowl at us from under the couch, she has kind of returned to her normal self a touch. I don’t think she quite entirely trusts me yet, but I guess that is to be expected.

Of course the kittens are oblivious to their mother’s trauma and have ended up with a few swift swipes from her for trying to interfere where they are not wanted.