We passed our test!
Now we are sunning it again!
18.05.2007 - 20.05.2007
35 °C
Hello,
We passed our 'Open water Padi diving course'! The exam was pretty easy I must admit as you can tell from our marks (97%). The last day diving was awesome as we did 2 eighteen meter dives amongst some amazing reef. The second dive was cut short as Rich seems to go through his oxygen quicker than most people (think he must have huge lungs). The instructor was even surprised as he had never seen a tank go down so quickly. I had 90 bar left in my oxygen tank, the instructor had about 80 but Rich only had 17 by the time we reached the surface.
Is this the same course as you did Dave?
We had a few well earned drinks that night to celebrate. The beach bar here has a happy our from 4 till 7 so that suited us a treat. We ended up going straight from sunbathing to enjoying cocktails and watching the sun go down. It was lovely!
Yeasterday we hired a quad bike and we went exploring the rest of the Island. It was great fun but I'm so pleased we had a quad and not a normal bike as the roads (mud tracks) were terrible. We went to the south of the Island to discover some of the beaches. One of these beaches is called 'Shark Bay' and we did actually see some sharks swimming there. Scarily only about 10 meters away from a couple of snorkellers!
Today we are back on the beach sunning it but it's seriously hot so we had to get into the internet cafe for an air con fix.
Hope all is well
Love form Shonah and Rich
xxx
Posted by dickydutch 20.05.2007 12:32 AM Archived in Thailand
Hey dudes, Congratulations on passing your exam! 97% i'm very proud of you both! I'd love to go diving but i think i'd be too scared, not sure why tho! The fact that Rich's oxygen ran out so fast made me giggle he really must have huge lungs!!!
I'm not up to much at the min, i've got my last ever uni exam on wednesday so i'm trying really hard to study but i just can't get back into the swing of using my brain like i used to. I honestly don't need to use it at work so its been a while since its actually been needed! The only exciting thing that has happened to me this week involves me turning down an interview for a really good job (which happened to pay really well too) because it was on the same day as my stupid exam. Actually now i think about it, it wasn't exciting it was just really really annoying!(I've just noticed that i've said 'really' about a million times in this email!!)
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the last couple of weeks of your trip, i'll try and have another wee read before i jet off to sunny spain next friday.
Love you both. xXx
20.05.2007 by Dobba