Well as promised, here is Jens Open Water video…

Today is a rest day, as both ears are now infected for me (bloody sore!) and Jen is tired from her weeks worth of early morning… Chores and stuff to do around the place….

Enjoy the vid!

Jenny has completed her first unsupervised Open Water Course.

A challenging introduction with one particular student who was very nervous, but Jen performed outstandingly. All students are continuing onto Deep Adventure dives tomorrow. WELL DONE JENNY!!

Video to be posted in the next day or 2, but while Jen was busy with Open Waters, I was finalising the build of the Twins Coral Nursery with the Eco Team. Here is a small snippet….

Thanks to Debbie Gotendenker for filming and Dan for the inspirational music (new band called “The XX”)

Enjoy folks!

More building coral nurserys… while Jen is in the middle of an Open Water Course.

I spent the morning with a few people constructing the final nurseries that will go in to the Twins dive site.

Then, while Jen was in the pool with her 4 students, I went with a few people to Junkyard, to finish off a few bits and bobs. Getting back to the beach, I thought I would take the time to go to the clinic to check my still not quite right ear.

The doc checked my ear but it was too blocked to see, so commence with a session of syringing. Then digging around she started to pull out some paper… 1 hour later, it was getting sore, so she put some oil in my ear and told me to come back in an hour. I did, and another session of pulling crap out of my ear commenced.

Finally, she had cleared most of the gunk, paper etc away from my eardrum, and could see there was no visible damage. 3 days out of the water I was told, and then return for check up. NOT A CHANCE! I am having a day out of the water before the Nursery deployment on the 11th. Then on the 12th, back to the clinic.

The moral of this story is… don’t clean out your ears with toilet paper!

x

SD