Today after breakfast, we were all picked up by Kostas, the owner of Godive Mykonos where we were taken to Lia Beach, about 20 minutes away from where we’re staying.  Our plan was to dive two different dive sites.  While Barb held down the beach encampment and continued her ever present search for sea shells, Lynda, Doug and I climbed on board the dive boat and headed out for our first dive site.

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Once we arrived at the first dive site, the three of us hit the water and descended into the deep.  According to my wrist dive computer, the water temperature was around 70 degrees.  We were diving a small reef about a mile south of Lia Beach.  We discovered that our waterproof cameras that Doug and I were planning on taking with us on these dives were only waterproof to 33 feet under water.  Since we were planning on going twice that deep, the cameras were left on the boat.  Our dive masters had a camera that would take the depth we were going to, but we’re still waiting for him to email us the photos.  The water was so crystal clear that no matter how deep you went away from the surface, the visibility was tremendous.  We saw schools of fish, barracudas, and moray eels.  We also saw amphora (ancient Greek jars and vases from centuries past).  It was all so very amazing and wonderful.  Towards the end of the dive, I was getting low on air and one of our dive masters handed me his auxiliary regulator off of his tank and so he, Lynda and I surfaced first to get back to the boat.  On that dive we went down 59 feet.  Climbing back onto the boat we headed back to Lia Beach to rest a bit before going out for our second dive.  The second dive to Lia Reef was just as amazing, with more amphora and moray eels and schools of fish.  We circled the entire reef.  This dive took us to 67 feet below the surface.  Back on the boat after the dive, we headed back to Lia Beach to turn in our equipment and head back to the hotel.  A truly wonderful and amazing day it has been.