anacapa island, diving, and sea lions

this weekend we went diving at anacapa island!!! we did 3 dives. we saw A BUNCH OF SEA LIONS!!!! there were TONS of them!! we were on the boat 'spectre'. the cook's name was shannon, too!! after the last dive she made brownie sundaes! they were GOOD!!! all of the dives went good, but on the 3rd dive, we were doing compass skills. we did everything fine on the surface...then, we couldn't get it right underwater. so, dad took us up to the surface and explained it again. we went under again, and lost 2 people from our group and had to surface again. we went down again, and surfaced again. everybody was having trouble with their ears and we kept surfacing over and over again, so dad decided that we had to stop the dive. so we went back to the boat, and dad did a fun dive with a couple people from our group. he told me i couldn't go just because i was having so much trouble equalizing my ears. so me and courtney hung out in the hot tub ;-) it was really nice :-) on the ride over to anacapa, we saw a bunch of dolphins!! some got right next to the boat. there was even a baby dolphin!! and some jellyfish. it was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much fun!!!