She has been hard at work conducting a 6 person Open Water Course, 2 of which were police officers from Rotherham.
Me, I have had my foot in front of a fan for 5 days now! YAWN!! It gave me time to catch up with UK work until last night where one of my UK pcs decided to blow up!! Oh well… it’ll be fixed soon I hope. The state of my foot has improved slowly, but the toes are still double the size they should be.. Its drying out now, and today is the first day where I haven’t had to lance it… so fingers crossed it will be good in a few days.
3 days to go and we head to Gili Trawangan, and hopefully some awesome dives… Its going to take 2 days to get there as the flight connections are rubbish… but its going to be a fun adventure!
It’s been a grim day, rain, rain and more rain but that didnt stop me going diving this afternoon with Linda, who’s doing a 6month eco internship and one of my protege’s Emily to Junkyard to take photo’s of the newest structure, the Windmill.
Iona & Chloe, we donated 1000 baht to have you’re names welded onto the structure and you have a piece of coral too which Simon and I will look after and monitor especially for you 😀
Simon in the meantime has been at home, resting his foot.
Sorry…. A lack of posts again… but we have been very busy bees!!
So I shall recap..
I continued 4 of the Open Water students into the Advanced course, and it coincided with a final trip for this year to Sail Rock! Finally I had a chance to get to see the Bull Sharks!!!
We headed out on a day that was super calm… it was a gorgeous day.
The first dive, I went around the pinnacle of the dive site, and no sharks 🙁 However…. on the 2nd dive, I went off the dive site and got to see 2 of them for a brief couple of minutes… it was awesome!
Returning to the pinnacle…. we missed it and ended up diving in the middle of the blue for about 30 minutes…. oh well… it was worth it..!
The next day, it was time to finish off the new coral tranplant structure for Junkyard. Another long couple of long days of welding and cutting. But, it was finally ready to transplant.. We scheduled the deployment for the 19th.
A couple of days before deployment, we attended a Project Aware day for the island, trying to promote the eco stuff that goes on here.
I got roped in at the last moment to do some presentations about mooring lines.
It went well, and a lot of awareness was raised that day. Hopefully the vibe continues into next year.!
Then it was time for the windmill deployment!
It was a precarious job, using the longtail to get the structure out to Junkyard, and then sliding it off, whilst trying to keep it afloat…. but somehow we managed it. Lots of video taken, so given some time, I can edit it.
Which leads us to last night, where I had been promising a couple of friends that I would make some veggie chilli… 6 people in the end… with me cooking on 2 tiny stoves with 1 saucepan and 1 frying pan… not easy!
They left around 10pm and Jen and I cosied up to a movie…. retiring early. However, I was up most of the night with 2 really painful toes… It felt like they were going to explode… looks like I have foot rot!! With the water and weather, its pretty common… squeezing a ton of pus out helped relieve the pain…
So today, its off to the clinic for some medication… and no diving.. while Jen finishes the Windmill deployment.
