Not much has happened the past few days. Just diving, eating and sleeping. I wish that I could take my camera and show what im going to try to describe.
On the first dive I saw some great sea creatures… another puffer fish and a moray eel or two. After swimming along the bottom of the sea at 14 meters we come to a bare patch of sand with what looked like a feild of sea grass gently waving in the currents. Ludo (my instructor) tells me to look closely at them (using a series of hand gestures). As we get closer I begin to notice that it was not grass, but eels. Garden Eels to be exact. We swam into the garden and as we approached them they retreated back into the ground, and then popped back out once we passed. As I looked behind and around me I saw that we were surrounded by them. It was very surreal to see this in person and not just on that little black box us humans call TV.
Later I get back out, shower, change and then pass out on my bed for an unknown lenght of time. I then wake up, go to Aroma for a sandwich and then read a bit before I pass out. Ohh the lazy life by the sea. I might be able to get used to it.

Today is the same as yesterday pretty much. I woke up, wrote my final open water exam, which I think I passed, and then went for a dive. This was another great dive. From the moment we submerged I noticed very many jellyfish. Not the creepy ones with the tentacles, but the bulbus ones with rims of flashing lights. So pretty and soo delicate, I wanted to eat them. We practice a few technical saftey techniques before we dive along the sea floor. This time at 18 meters. Ludo pointed out to me a spotted ray, like a small sting ray, very neat. Later on he points for me to look under a piece of coral. I couldn’t see what he was trying to show me untill he poked at it and *abaracadabera* a piece of the coral changes colour and moves away. It be an octopus! I diddn’t think that we would be able to find one but there it was. He pokes it again to try to get it out and it shoots its ink on us. How lovely. Then it starts to crawl away changing colours. It was incedible to see how quickly it changes colours, almost at an instant like lightning. Apparently they are friendly and playful, but Ludo doesn’t like the suction feeling. Perhaps next time I see one I will try to make friends. I don’t think the suction will bother me too much.

Now that I’m dry and out of the water there isn’t much else left to do but wander the streets and eventually go to bed. And on that note….

toodle doo