Diving at Maeda Point (& we had our camera!)

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To us, gorgeous weather on a Friday (when I don't get called to sub at AEIS) means one thing is on our minds - SCUBA diving! Fridays bring only a reasonable crowd size at Maeda-misaki, Okinawa's most popular shore diving location, since it's not a full-blown weekend day off work for the average diver. So that's where we went & we had a fully charged camera in tow! Upon entry in the water we decided to go north (right) towards where we saw the huge Loggerhead turtle during our previous Maeda dive (4 April). No turtles this time around. Instead, we saw gorgeous examples of the usual reef suspects & a couple of oddballs (having the camera sometimes makes us slow down & really look at things). Shortly before the end of the long dive (63 min), the 166 photos we'd taken (which have been reduced to only 97 decent enough shots) had exhausted the battery in the camera, just after we saw a particularly gorgeous lionfish. All in all, a pretty good dive that would only have been better with a few more unique sightings.