0700/Sunday, 29 July 2007:  Up, showered and filling out log books while having a cup of coffee. We checked out of the hotel and went to MBT to pick up our tanks for the last time.  Then we were on the road back home with a stop by Morrison Spring to do a quick dive and rinse our gear.

1030:  We were at Morrison and and looking around.  As we were walking around, we met PerroneFord and Live4Sharks from Scubaboard.  We talked for a few minutes and then went to get geared up ourselves.  We went in the water at 1100. We were getting some looks since Dee was wearing her "Shrek" hood and I was wearing the "Dragon" hood. But, we got some good comments on them also. We went to the log, took some pictures, went into the shallow cavern and took pics and a video.  We looked all around since 3 of us had never been there and the other (Bill) had not been in 4 years.  Mark called his dive after 18 minutes.  He was bored.  Bill called his about 45 minutes into it.  Dee and I kept going until we ran out of air.  We looked all around. I went back into the shallow cavern and went to the "Cave" sign at the entrance of the deep cavern. I didn't know the cavern and didn't have anyone with me that knew it, so I didn't go into the deep one. I'll do it next time now that I know it's just a big ballroom with one way in or out.  Finally, Dee and I called the dive when we started running low on air.  We got 87 minutes from an AL80 tank on this dive. Dee surfaced with 390psi and I had 380. No too shabby for me.  Especially since my weighting was all off. I struggled almost the entire dive  to correct buoyancy. I came close to calling it a couple times, but I stuck with it. I was overweighted. Which seemed to be my calling for the weekend.  I need to work on my setup. I change wetsuits,  tanks, hoods and everything all the time. I need to stick with a setup and get the weighting on it correct.  Just something for me to practice on.  This dive was 87 minutes, max depth of 44 feet. Air temp was 92, surface temp was 70 and at depth, 68.  Other than weighting issues, the only other problem I had was the massive amount of snot on my face when I took off my mask.  I guess when I cleared my mask, I cleared more than just my mask that time. :)  Luckily, Dee is good dive buddy and said, "You might want to wipe your face off there.  And there. And there. And there."  We broke down the gear, rinsed off what sand we could and were headed back on the road around 1300.

 1900: Back home safe and sound after dropping everyone off.

This was an awesome weekend!!! We had some good times and really enjoyed the company. This was a great group to dive with and I would do it again in heartbeat.  Thanks to everyone that came!!!

The pictures from the trip can be seen here or there is a link from the Trips page or simply go to the Scan Gallery.

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