Sam had another dive on Saturday, so it was another trip to the beach or in this case beaches for Mom and Dad. Sam has had an incredible summer for diving as he didn’t have any cancelled dives for weather this year – almost all the hurricanes went to the Gulf coast instead of up the Atlantic coast. If you include the quarry dives, we think he actually has had 7 total dives this summer with one more scheduled for October 20th. The 20th should be his last dive this year and it will be his Advanced Certification dive where he will be out from 6am until 3pm and going to a depth of at least 100′.
While Sam was diving, Mom and Dad went to Fort Macon State Park – their usual modus operandi. This time though, Dad went to the Fort to take a few photos and Mom went to find some seashells as she apparently doesn’t have enough yet. Unfortunately, tide was too high and there weren’t any seashells to be found… well at least not at this beach. Two beaches later at Pine Knolls beach, Mom was able to find a few so the trip wasn’t a total loss. Luckily for Mom, Sam also picked her up 3 new shells from the bottom of the ocean (about 65′ down). Sam said he would have had a fourth seashell, but it was apparently still inhabited.
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