March 23

Today we only did half a day of scuba diving. The last chapter of the book had a little bit of new information and the rest of it was kind of a “sell” of the PADI course. So Arnaud didn’t make us watch the dvd that we missed yesterday. We went down to 18 meters this morning using Nitrox – which has a bit more pure oxygen in it to allow for a longer dive. We took the diving school’s underwater camera to take pictures while we were down. We say a huge sting ray, a moray eel, and a lion fish. Our pictures can show how the colors diminish underwater. We have 2 pictures of the same lionfish, one without a flash and one with a flash. You can see how it looks greyish, but is actually quite red. When it was time to come out of the water, we practiced an out of air situation where Mark shared my alternate air source while we were coming out of the water. We took the final exam for open water certification and passed. Tomorrow we are going to do our deep water adventure dive.

We got back around 12, took a shower, and went to the Lighthouse Bar for lunch. We didn’t have a lot of time, so we both ordered a chicken sandwich and a sprite. We went directly to the seaplane jetty to leave for the dolphin safari. That was lots of fun. We saw so many dolphins. We did a little videoing – hopefully it won’t make us too seasick to watch it. We ate dinner and joined Leslie, Dave, Gavin, and Emma after dinner at the bar for “Comedy Night”. The word comedy should be used lightly. I guess the guys here have a different sense of humor. It was a little humorous, but not too funny. We stayed until around 11:30 and then excused ourselves for the evening.