Later in the week we headed South to Baga, an unattractive resort town replete with sun-broiled tourists, waterslides and, believe it or not, a Subway. Although a vision of Goa we'd intentionally been avoiding, Baga was the launch point for our scuba dive trip to Pigeon Island. Upon approach, Pigeon Island looked like a potential setting for Jurassic Park 4--completely covered in lush, impenetrable greenery and housing, well, god knows what... The diving itself was pretty reasonable. We poked around some corral reefs in the shallows, descending deeper on the second dive to explore the wreck of an early twentieth century steamer. Visibility was low and Marci was having trouble maintaining neutral buoyance so I spent a lot of time furtively glancing between her and our largely inattentive dive master, preparing to swim ahead and grab
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