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Hey Jason you make it home from Bonair okay?

I did yeah we got home uh boy in the we hours on Sunday and speaking of the supporter crew thanks

everybody for your patience I actually spent the wee hours of this morning because

I had a little insomnia packaging up gosh a whole raft of new TGM supporter kits for a bunch of folks that

signed up while I was away.

So thanks for your patience and thanks for the support.

That's excellent.

Yeah, we flew in.

It was a long travel day.

You know, it shouldn't feel that long,

but it always does coming home.

You know, uneventful baggage all arrived.

No cockroaches crawling out of our suitcase like happened one time before.

I guess since we spoke last week between recording then and now, we had almost another full week of diving and it was a good one. I mean we

You know we've been there so many times but we hadn't done a couple of things. We took a trip over to in in fact just hours after we talked last, we drove over to the east coast of the island, which is kind of the windier, wavier, rougher side so you don't do any shore diving over there and hooked up with a small outfit that that takes people out and boats out past the reef break and we did kind of a really nice dive there where we saw about a dozen turtles and a bunch of mores and just some cool, very cool, cool new reef that we hadn't seen before that was fun and then we did a couple of nights of night diving after that because we happened to time our trip right where there's a crustacean called an ostracod that mates three to four nights after the full moon every month every month and

They're bioluminescent so when they kind of embark on their little mating ritual they kind of rise up out of

the coral and emit a glow that looks like beads of light heading towards the surface and you have to time it within 45 minutes of sunset down to the minute almost and then they all lift off and it's about a 20 minute display and then that's the end of it.

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