We’ve been out on the afternoon boat assisting Tina with here 4 Open Water students with dive 1 & 2.
Unfortunately one of the students was unable to decend on the first dive, due to ear problems.  The three remaining German students were very good in the water so Si & I just hung back and watched Tina do here magic.  Unfortunately the visibility wasnt great and yet again we had another dive at ‘Twins’ followed by ‘Pottery’ dive site.  All good fun though.

Back on dry land we washed our kit and headed to ‘Safety Stop’ to see Scott, our friend from the UK.   It’s great to see a familiar face from home 😀    Scott’s going to stay with us tonight and then find accommodation else where, in town.

After having some food and a good ole catch up, we headed back home to chill & to catch up on the latest new of his travels

Well, no change in the weather, it’s blistering hot!  ;-D

We were both signed up on the afternoon boat for a couple of fun dives, so no concrete structures to move.
Our first dive was ‘Twins’ yet again, visibility was pretty rotten and I led, my navigation is pretty terrible and when Si asked me halfway through the dive, where’s the boat.  I was spot on.  Then after spotting a couple of massive Trigger fish I altered course, he asked me again a little later and I had no idea 😀

Let me just tell you, I got triggered last time I was here.  Triggers are mean looking fish and very territorial when it comes mating season (Now).  Their nest is a small area on the bottom of the sea bed but it goes up rather like an ice cream cone to the surface, so you can imagine, it can cover a large area.  Last year whilst diving and out of nowhere, I felt a massive punch on the side of my leg, rather like a cricket ball had him me at full pelt.  I turned to look. I thought I was going to see a massive chunk out of my leg as the force was incredible but luckily, there was only a massive mouth shaped indent there  ..I’ve never used so much air in a short amount of time in my life.   That really shook me up and now I’m very wary.

Second dive was at ‘Pottery’  I’ve only dove this at night which made a nice change to see it in daylight.  We saw a Crown of Thorns (Coral eater), butterfly fish, Angel fish, Shrimp, Puffer  ..to name but a few.

Back on dry land we washed our kit and headed to ‘Safety Stop’ for a drink and to log on

It’s Valentines day!!

Both Simon and I woke to find a card each under our door  ..I wonder who they’re from?  LOL

We thought as today is valentines, we’d have a lovely romantic time so we popped into Sairee to have breakfast and then went to Banns and played in the pool.

We headed back home around 4pm and I had a snooze as all that swimming really got to me whilst Si cracked on with some work  ..An hour or so later I arose from my rose layden bed (only joking) and we both watched an episode of Eastenders, showered and then headed down on the bike into Sairee for a romantic walk along the beach, stopping at ‘Vibe’ beach bar for a beer and to tell each other how much we loved each other  (please dont be sick LOL).  Sairee beach is so pretty at night, all the restaurants/bars have little dug outs in the sand where they have candles burning, mats/beans scattered  ..we’ll take some pics next time.  After an hour or so, we headed back along the beach, back into town to a lovely Indian restaurant called ‘Shalimar’  The food was delicious!

What a lovely relaxing day!! 

JD x