Today for me, was time to go back to work, so I was on the beach doing Discover Scuba Diving. Unfortunately two of our students didn’t even make it to the water… we cannot stress enough the importance of drinking enough water.. dehydration tends to kick in a day in arrears, so if you spend one day drinking mostly beer and about half a litre of water, the next day you are going to seriously suffer. Ooops. Unfortunately not everyone realises this when they arrive, and of course being on holiday you want to have a drink or two (check my own comments in the previous paragraph). It is just vital that that beer is counterbalanced with heaps of water.

Anwyay back to the diving… we had our little group of divers briefed up and kitted up, and I took my two off to go through their initial paces. Just a couple of skills before heading out for a little dive. Sadly despite many attempts, the guy just couldn’t take to it. Having never snorkelled before it was all a novelty, and for him it was not a nice novelty. So despite being very brave and attempting to breathe with his face in the water several times, he opted to head back to shore. Maybe another time…

The other student, flew through her skills and went on to do the open water dive. We had a great time, an eagle ray, plenty of puffer fish, parrot fish and clown fish. Then right at the end we saw a giant titan triggerfish and a big napoleon wrasse. Not bad for her first dive eh? I did find it quite amusing that the trigger fish was getting a bit aggressive with the snorklers feeding it (fish feeding is illegal here and so disruptive to the fish). He didn’t do any harm, but again confirms another reason why we don’t feed fish here… they can start to associate swimmers with food… not always the best idea.

Anyway, a good day was had by all.. and after a 50 minute dive we headed back to the dive centre to log the dive, look at photos and chat about our sightings.

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