1st Nov 2012

Monsoon is here, black clouds this morning.

Got up early a picked up at 7.15am to go to the dive centre.

We had a cockney dive master called dave who was really nice and funny.

We had a large slow rocking boat out to sail rock- which is just a rock in the middle of the ocean. The journey was a little much for some but Ben and I seemed to avoid the sea sickness- for now anyway!

First we did our fish identifying adventure dive for our advanced.

We jumped in and it was a bit choppy so quickly descended. It was amazing, the most fish we have seen and they were much bigger than previous dives. The groupers and angel fish were 3 times the size if what we've seen previously.

There were big schools of barracudas also. But the highlight of the dive was huge bull sharks!! They were massive, 3-4 metres long and there were a few of them, they came quite close but did not seemed phased by us at all!

Lunch on board- unfortunately Ben now started to feel a bit sick! Then back in the water for our second dive- multilevel adventure dive, to pass this part we had to plan our dive on board ourselves rather than being guided.

Again the fish were numerous and again we saw the bull sharks- this time the water was not a clear so they suddenly appeared from nowhere and came even closer this time! Was a bit eerie down there! It makes you feel very small when they come close!

Such a good experience and can not wait for tomorrow's dives now!

Storm this evening, lots of lightening out to see, sat and watched it whilst having some dinner.Baca selengkapnya