I spent most of the morning just pottering about whilst Si got on with some of his UK work.

Around midday, we headed to Crystal as the last of the structures were being deployed at ‘Junk Yard’. As well as the normal crew, we had a few DMT’s on the boat who were actually going to map it.

The 4 cement pillars for the Sydney Harbour bridge and pvc pipes which were cemented into biscuit tins,went in first and then we dove down with the structures.

Luckily we didn’t have to move anything too far as the drop zone was exactly where we planned.  So with the bridge tied to the pillars and the karaoke station fixed to the pvc piping our job was done.

We’ve doubled the size of Junk Yard now and with a couple of more items being deployed next week, it should be a fantastic place to take open water students.

Up early, Si started on his UK work and I slept in.

Around 2.30 we headed down into Mae Haad and got breakfast from ‘Greasy Spoon’.  Si had a healthy portion of large chips and I got an egg and bacon sandwich which we got as takeaway and ate at Deep Down, then headed to Crystal.  Nathans friends were putting the last touches onto their ‘Sydney Harbour bridge’  which looked incredible.  They’d even been out to buy a few toy cars which they attached to the netting road.  By far, this was the best structure to date.

This afternoon we were all going out on the Dusk dive at ‘Chumphon’ and the night dive at ‘Twins’

At Chumphon pinnacle we were the only boat apart from a little fishing boat moored up which made a refreshing change.  The viz was good  even with the light fading and Si and I had a great dive.  I was constantly looking out for a whale shark or two (wishful thinking) but it wasn’t to be.

After a 55 minute dive, we were back on the boat and change to a fresh tank, ready for our next dive at ‘Twins’.

The journey back was around 1/2 an hour, so we had a cuppa & a few biscuits until we had an hr surface interval then kitted up ready for our next dive.

This dive we followed Nathan, Tracy & friends around ‘Buoyancy World’ and then headed off in our own direction when we came across Kat, Deb & Carsten with his incredibly powerful light.  The strobe setting on it would certainly start you fitting if you suffered from epilepsy.

Anyway, for a laugh, both Si and I turned our torches off and swam either side of Kat for a minute or two. When Kat saw Si, it made her jump and then Si signalled her to look to her left, where I had my head as close to her as I could, she shrieked  ..it was so funny that my mask kept on filling up with water.  Moments like that are priceless.   (Obviously we wouldnt have done it on anyone that would have panicked)

Dive kit washed and packed away, we headed to the bar for a drink, caught up with a couple of friends and then made our way home..

We were at Crystal around 10.30.  Si sat down and started some UK work and I helped to finish some of the structures that were created yesterday, then helped move all the cement bases down onto the beach, so they were ready to be lifted up onto the longtail for the afternoon deployment dive.
The work on the Sydney harbour bridged was still going on and it was looking good.   Nathans friends had put in some really hard work especially when they’re supposed to be on holiday.

After a short break for lunch, we tidied up the construction area and loaded most of the structures onto the Longtail along with our dive equipment.  The longtail was rammed full but didnt look as low in the water as it was yesterday.  So no chance of sinking today LOL

Our first job was to lower the cement blocks one at a time and then cement filled biscuit tins.  With these on the sea bed we took the framework (roof shaped) down and placed it in it’s position and then swam back and collected the cement blocks with pvc uprights for the corner pieces and fixed those on.  So now we have a tower which fins with letters cut out of them will hang, spelling out ‘Crystal’

61 mins later, we surfaced after a succussful dive and headed back.  Dive kits washed and put away and a general tidy up, we headed back home stopping on the way for spray paint for Si’s bike.

At home, I got on with sanding various parts of the bike which Si had dismantled and Si fiddled with the electrics whilst carrying on with UK work.

Around 5.30, 6pm it was invasion of the mosquito’s.  We bared it outside for around 15 mins but after killing a dozen or so, we surrendered and headed indoors.  Both very sweaty and covered in dust, we showered and headed out for a pizza and had an early night..