On the 4th, while I was working on the shark release video, and hiding from the sun, as the welding incident was still causing some issues, Jen decided to join the “Swim For Sharks” held by a dive school called “Big Blue”.
The swim, involved swimming around the whole island of Koh Nang Yuan (the island next door).
Doing a circuit of the island is no mean feat, the distance is about 3km, and Jen had never swam for a long distance. She finished in 1hr 27mins, dealing with strong currents and choppy waves. A good job done, and if Jen gets time I am sure she will tell you about it.
That evening there was a party, but neither of us attended, as Jen was tired (no surprise!) and I had a mountain of work to do… including format my PC..!!
The next day, Jen started an Open Water Course, and I started a Reef Check Course….
This morning we’re sat silence in ‘Cafe Del Sol’ tapping away on our pc’s, munching breaky playing catch up. Since our visa run we’ve been busy. On the 1st Sept we helped out some more with Bouyancy world construction. I left around mid day to take two eco students on dives to Aow Leuk to check out the coral nurseries while Si carried on welding for most of the day.
Later that night he suffered severely that night and the day after with Arc eye. Pretty scary, as at one point Si couldnt even open his eyes they were so painful. Not something I’d ever like to experience.
Today is my Aunty Babs’s 90th birthday, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNTY BABS! 90 years young! I hope you enjoy your surprise party!! AND a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAULSY, my big brother for tomorrow. We both hope you have an amazing day and we’ll be raising our glasses to you both 😀
Today was Mini’s deployment. Basically MINI have donated a life size mini car concrete structure along with a concrete telephone box, underground signs and massive (over 6ft tall) concrete letters, spelling out MINI.
After hours of rigging, manouvering were craned onto the back of trucks and then transported down to the pier straight onto the Tally Sub night boat which then set off to Aow Leuk bay to be deployed. Si was filming all of the land shots whilst I along with 3 other videographers were on Crystal 1, following behind to film all of the underwater action.
It was a pretty slow but good day, everyone was given ‘Mini’ shirts and had crew passes for a free evening of food and drink. By the time we got back, we were pretty tired so grabbed something to eat locally and then went to the Babaloo bar where we all intended to just have a couple of drinks but as you can imagine with a free bar, we worked our way through the cocktail menu and ended up all pretty smashed. We’ll put some footage on the blog soon ;-D
