We had a day off today.  Si spent the majority of the day doing UK work and all I did was to cycled down Sairee with our tupperwear boxes to get breakfast.  I ordered a veggie breaky for Simon from ‘Choppers’ and whilst that was being prepared  I rode to ‘Zest’ for fruit, museli and yoghurt then popped in to 7/eleven to buy a carton of OJ, water & milk and then back to ‘Choppers’.   It’s not really far to cycle but it’s just the heat that kills me.  I got back puffing and panting and plated up.  Si was delighted as he’d not had veggie sauasages for ages.

I spent the afternoon watching TV, typing a few mails and popped out for a bit to drop off/collect our washing.  Around 6pm Si had had enough of work and we decided to go to ‘Choppers’ to meet up with Carsten (German Instructor) and a few others the watch the Germany V Serbia game which ended in a 1-0 win for Serbia.  Carsten was gutted.

After the game, we shot up to ‘Kanya’ to meet Alan & Heidi for a meal and then went home to bed to catch a couple of hours sleep before getting up again at 1am to head down to ‘Choppers’ again to watch the England game.  I wish we hadn’t bothered as England were rubbish.  We were lucky to finish with a no score draw.

Well done Dominc…. must have been the naked dive video!

One small Chang coming your way…

More pin ups coming soon!

We arrived at Crystal at 6.50am and helped Nath pack the students dive bags and then grabbed a coffee.  The students turned up a couple of minutes later and checked their equipment, making sure it was the correct size etc.   On dives 3 & 4, the videographers come out with us to film the dive but today wasn’t the greatest of days.  The vis on both dives was terrible, maybe 1-2 meters vis on the first and maybe 4 meters on the 2nd.  As we couldnt do any skills on the first dive, performance requirements were not met, so Nath decided to do a short 5th dive at Junk Yard on our way back. Thankfully the vis was much better, maybe 10 or so meters, so we were able to complete the skills, go for a little fun dive and the Jace (videographer) was able to get some semi decent footage.  I felt bad for the students as it’s the worst vis that we’ve experienced since being here.

The students funnily enough had a great time, they loved the extra dive at Junk Yard and were pleased with seeing half a dozen puffa fish, baby sweetlips, cuttle fish amongst the normal damsels etc  and back in the bar, after having an hour or so lunch break, they decided to signed up for the Advanced course in a couple of days.

I must say that I originally thought the 4 young girls in the group would be a complete nightmare as they weren’t taking things seriously, were playing around during their buddy checks but with a stern word here and there, they stepped into line quite nicely 😉

We’re at home now, Si’s catching up with UK work and I’m popping out to see whether anyones in the office so I can collect our washing.

Tonight at 7.30pm, we’ve our groups open water video which should be interesting, I wonder how much footage Jace got.