Here is a small snippet of some of the bleaching that has quickly come on.

Fingers crossed that the weather change (rain and wind needed) will help it recover… the next few weeks will be critical, and we shall be monitoring it closely.

After riding down to Sairee to buy fresh bread, OJ, water and eggs I planned to make a lovely breakfast for Simon.  As we’ve only got a plug in, one ring stove and a wok like pan it didnt exactly turn out how Id imagined.  The eggs must have been old (ish) as the joke seperated from the white and just didnt look right and the lovely fresh bread that I’d put in the grill, microwave to toast, ended up as hard as hell.   Typical, all that effort and it really wasnt worth it. Si joked about loosing a tooth which I wasn’t too amused at 😉

In the afternoon, we met with Nathan, his sister and mother to have a fun dive at ‘Junk Yard’  along with Ohad, a DMT (dive master Trainee) who was going to map the dive site.   We had a lovely relaxed dive and felt proud of all the hard work we’ve put into this dive site.  After a 50min dive, we clambered about the longtail and headed back to shore.  Nathans mother was pretty impressed.  Just the sheer convienience of jumping on the longtail and being at the dive site in 5 minutes.  Junk Yard will be a bit hit with Open Water students i’m sure.

Back at home we showered and watched Battlestar Galactica and then some of the Monaco Gran Prix before heading out to ‘Morava’ Restaurant.  Tonight was a leaving bash for Ali, who worked at Crystal.  We did plan to eat but by the time we got there, the table was full (15 or so people) and more friends standing at the bar who had already ordered, so we thought we’d just stay for a few drinks and then get food later, plus there was only veggie Lasagna for Si, which he doesn’t really like.   So after a few beers we left and got a takeaway and headed home to watch the last episode of Battle Star galatica, which was very sad ;-D  LOL

Many Happy returns to:   Garth, Sean & Stef!!!

Si went out early to get breakfast and returned with a feast.  Eggs, sausage (for me) beans, toast, coffee and juice, all in our new Tuppaware containers.  FYI – most of the takeaways on the island come packed into a hideous amount of polystyrene boxes & plastic bags which isnt very eco friendly, so we thought we’d set a good example.  Breakfast tasted delicious and I think we appreciated it more as we’d not eaten since yesterday morning.

This afternoon we were out on the boat helping Nathan do a Reef Check at ‘Twins’ along with the soon to be qualified Reef check students.   I assisted on the shallow (5mtrs) transect line, counting invertebrate while Debbie & Nathan did fish & substrates.  The rest of the team, along with Simon did the deep (9mtrs) transect line. All the data from lines will be recorded and then entered on a global database.

 After going home for a shower and a couple of episodes of Battle Star Galactica, we went to ‘Dirty Nellys’ for food and then on to Crystal to watch Tims (trainee videographer) final underwater movie and to cheer on the newly certified Dive Masters do there Snorkel Test.