Saturday, November 17, 2012

No pics today because "I'm on a boat".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU#t=25s

But the words I'm typing are actually travelling 25,000 miles up to a wee little satellite and 25,000 miles back down to the internet post office, so must n't complain.

It's a three day diving extravaganza!

Most people on the boat are about twelve years old, or thereabouts. One of them is even a doctor. Imagine that: a real life Doogie Howser.

We're diving rather a lot. Saw a shark and a fish today.
At night the reef is pretty much like a human city: very few inhabitants out on the streets except for the odd turtle sleeping rough bashing in to the coral and looking a little confused and ashamed.

There's an Australian on the boat that ends his sentences in "but", and drives a cray fishing boat near Papua New Guinea; A gaggle of giggly German girls; a smattering of shy German Boys; an English couple; and a weird Japanese lad who vomits quite a bit, but has great air control on dives.
These make make up the rest of the divers along with Mike and I of course.

My de facto dive "buddy" is a German lad who has seen 25+ eclipses and already has the next six semi-planned, including Uganda! He has an underwater camera, and a sense of direction of a loaf of white bread.

Sense of direction + German = being dragged by a speedboat hanging onto a rope in full scuba outfit back to the boat. My thumb really hurts!

6:30am start tomorrow for a pre-breakfast dive.

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