divebunnie

Well a big old Happy Christmas to the faithfuls out there. It even looks as though some of us may get Christmas day off too!!! Unlike last year which was heaving on Christmas week, we seem a little quiet this time. So it really could end up being a bit of a party week!!! As it is, we are having two Christmas dinners, one this evening (Christmas eve) as we have some Europeans among us, and then another British one tomorrow. No complaints there however!

Well it is back to normality for me and to ease me in gently after nearly a month off, I had a single Open Water student. After my longest break since becoming an instructor, it felt sooooo good when I went off for that first little swim around the pool… ahhh that floaty feeling of just sitting midwater, like the ultimate floatation tank.

The course went well, although in my absence the water seems to have frozen over!! Ok you hardcore Brit divers will be clicking your teeth at me here, as I am talking a paltry 22ºC nothing hovering around the single figures you often dive in… but for me it was a tad on the nippy side.

Having said that, we have started doing our first open water dives from Naama Beach, and there are some new things to be seen there that I haven’t seen elsewhere which was cool. I especially liked the horned trunk fish, which is like a cross between a box fish and a scribbled file fish, really cute.