Ocean Fest

Another annual event that we tend to volunteer for is called Ocean Fest. Ocean Fest promotes scuba diving. There's usually several of us from our kayak-scuba club, Kayuba, that helps out during this event. This year we helped out during the Treasure Hunt, which we haven't done in prior years. The organizers throw out large metal washers (painted hot pink) into the ocean for divers to hunt for. Divers who find a 'treasure' get a prize.

Andy and I, along with three other club members, were the Kayak-Safety team. Not a hard job - we're just out in the water in case anyone needs us, and we had to try to keep divers from leaving the "treasure zone". The only 'issue' that occurred was that some of the divers didn't have dive flags (making them harder for us to see, too) and they went out past the swim buoys. This put them at risk from jet skiers and boaters, so we would just paddle alongside their bubbles to protect them in case they surfaced.

Here the divers are just entering the water:

And here are all of their dive flags bobbing in the water.

It was easy and fun - who could complain about being out on the flat ocean on such a beautiful day?!