Si woke early to complete some work and I arose around 10  ..so had a lovely lie in 🙂

Today we helped out with a Reef Check course.  There’s only one chap, Matt who’s doing the course but Simon and I volunteered to assist as we wanted to see our artificial reef ‘Junk Yard’ and have a couple of easy dives.

Reef Check is where we lay down a transect linen (50m / 100m and monitor what’s 5m either side of it)  Its a brilliant course, its more than just looking a pretty fish, it shows you the damage that is being caused by the surrounding environment, namely us (humans).  The course is a 4 day course but it’s all classroom tomorrow and we’ll be going out again on Saturday.

After our dives we sat in the Crystal restaurant and chatted, reveiwing what we’d seen and the effects of climate change then proceeded to ‘Safety Stop’ for a beer and to log on & check mails.

JD x

So far it;s been a nice relaxing day.  Tonight I think we’ll be catching up with some friends to play ‘Settlers of Catan’  and having a few more beers.

As promised, here are some photos from Buoyancy World.

This is the deployment of 1 of the concrete barrels to hold the “Bamboo” in place.

Divers building a structure.

The Bamboo Forest, before being moved.

More to come…..!

SD

A lazy day today. Funnily enough, we’re both feeling a bit achey after all that heavy lifting yesterday.

We decided that we are going to take a chance and live at another place at the bottom of the road starting next month. Mainly as Simon needs a good solid internet connection for work purposes, and at the moment he is going from cafe to cafe to try and get urgent jobs done back in the UK.

Its boiling today, and we both really fancied a swim, so snuck into “Banns” (one of the largest dive schools on the island)  and made good use of their pool to cool off…. I think we must be the whitest people on the island 🙂

After an hour or so we then headed into Mae Haad to “Deep Down Productions” (underwater videographers) so that Si could chat about the possibility of him teaming up and starting the documentary side of things.

It sounds pretty promising and they are a good bunch of gus who benefit from Simons expertise 😉

JD