Saturday morning was sunny and warm. We were determined to get in a final two dives before leaving Sunday for Bocas. Before diving, Dave & I used the hookah to stand on the bottom and clean the boat. It needed it - the "hair" was 3-4" long in just a month. Amazing. For the first dive, we decided to go E to the barrier reef. Craig & I had done that last year and found huge pelagic fish in deep canyons weaving in and out through the reef. This year we only found shallows and a strong current against us. We tried swimming out, but soon gave it up as the current was strong, there was quite a bit of surge, and there was no evidence of the canyons, just a wide shelf of shallow coral leading to the breakers. So we got back in dinghy and cruised along the reef edge looking for the area Craig & I dove last year but never finding it. Scratching that idea, we went to an area Dave & I had scoped out earlier near the point of the military island. It was not a loop, but the deep edge of the point looked quite interesting. As we were checking it out and planning our dive, we spotted a group of 6 reef sharks cruising along. They did not seem hungry as there was also a group of pelagic fish near them who were being ignored, but it was voted that we would not join the mix. So we went to one of the mini-atolls we had done before and decided to concentrate on the multiple arms that stuck out to the E creating a range of ridges and valleys. It was a good choice. We found a couple conch in the shallows and then had a great dive in the deep. Lisa got lots of good footage with her camera and we played with several curious fish - even a trunk fish who did not run away but circled and looked at us. It was a long dive and a good one. We did not get back to the boat until 1:00. After lunch we were all tired and so decided maybe a shorter dive would be best to end with. Before we could do that, however, we had to move the anchor. The wind had clocked to S and we were right on the edge of the shallow coral patch that had been beside us. So we moved the anchor to a safer location. We were still close enough to the coral patch that we decided to go from the boat instead of using dink and just cruise around the patch looking for conch and check out the deep side of the drop off. As we were preparing to launch, a sport fisher came in and looked like he was about to anchor right on top of our anchor! Another "snuggler"! I asked him to give us some extra room and he very politely said, "No, problem. I'll find a place to park and you tell me if it is OK with you." And he did move to an acceptable (if obnoxiously close) position. As we finaly headed out to the coral, I noticed a big squall line on the horizon with a lot of rain.It was well N of us and appeared to be traveling E so we continued. I surfaced every few minutes to keep an eye on it. After I found nice conch and took it up to put in the hookah, I decided the squall was coming too near and I wanted to be on the boat when it hit so I told Deb I was going back but they could continue. She said, no we would all come back, so we did. The squall never really hit us, but we did swing in a crazy pattern and ended up nearer to the island than I liked. Having the other boat on the flats with us certainly limited our options of moving so we set an ancor alarm and watched. We were fine. By then it was 5:00 and clearly too late for another hookah so Dave & I broke it down and stowed everything while Deb cleaned conch and Lisa washed out dive suits, weight belts, etc. We had had a great last hookah in the morning so we didn't feel too disappointed. Sunday morning we leave for Bocas.