Day 107 – Wednesday 4th January 2006
It was a reasonably early start, up at seven to meet with the other folk who were due to go out diving that morning. As it was to be first dive after getting my PADI cert I was a bit nervous, but I soon forgot that when I realised I remembered how to set my stuff up after all!
It was another perfect Caribbean morning without a cloud in the sky and as the boat set out I was in high spirits. Nothing happened to change this throughout the two dives as everything went swimmingly. As soon as I got into the water, put on my goggles and looked under the water I could see the amazing difference between Lake Atitlan and Utila. Visibility was about 6 times better and the marine life was obviously evident. We dropped to a depth of aout 18m where there were some incredible tropical fish and coral. The fish swam nonchantly around us, seemingly unphased by the ungainly 6 people gawking at them blowing thousands of bubbles into the water.
After 45 minutes we surfaced, changed our air tanks, got back into the boat and were taken to a differnet dive site, known as Airport Caves. This dive was slightly shallower at 12m but was equally as good for the marinbe life, and it also inclded some swim throughs in caves. The fish of the day was a barracuda, which was in one of the caves, lying in wait for a smaller fish to swim by so it could catch it for lunch.
The diving finished at about 1pm and after filling out dive log books and putting the equipment away, I was well and truly ready for food and sunshine, so I got myself some lunch and sat on the jetty reading my latest book, The Hobbit.
The evening came around & three of us decided to have a bit of an impromptu drink, so we bought a bottle of rum between us and polished it off before going to a few bars. The problem with impromptu drinking I have always found is the lack of other people who share in your idea, hence the bars are rarely full. We faced the same problem on this occasion, but we still managed to have a good evening.
Roy (the scuba diver)
What about Spurs, played well lost 1-0 Kewell scored first goal since 2003.
You seem to be really enjoying yourself, keep it up
Love
M&D
German Lady Hunters, Ass shaking locals, Fireworks, Sunshine & Big Predatory fish….Fuck man, sounds like your having a crazy time my friend!
Just caught up on your last 7 posts cause i’ve no internet during the week! Nice to hear your cracking on something chronic with your activities. Looks gorgeous over there!
Another night on ‘The Strip’ was had by me last night. Bars in The Venetian followed by Studio 54 was the order of the night/morning (7am finish).
I’m looking into flights to Panama. Keep you posted!
OC & Joker: Hope your well my friends!? Anything I’ve missed?
OC has been lording it up in Florence this weekend, I was at a free bar wedding reception. Highly intoxicated!!!
How you getting on Royster?
Joker, M-Man and my Jonesy!
Roy looks fantastic mate, the site is great for a lunchtime read and a bit of relief from daily working life!
Mannequin – sounds awesome mate, have you run into steff and gill again? Had an all nighter myself in Florence – wicked night, ended up in one of italy’s best clubs where Groove Armada were playing live! FANTASTIC!
Keep looking after yourselves boys!
M-Man and OC, you still up for Boro for my birthday?
Jokester: Certainly am my friend! What were the dates again tho??
Not too sure yet, maybe the weekend of the 16/17/18th Feb
I am there boys!!!!!