Day Fifty

Today was the second day of our four day dive trip. On a typical dive day, like today, we would have some toast and jam, do our first dive, have a big breakfast, do our second dive, have a big lunch, do our third dive, have an afternoon snack, do our fourth dive, and finish the day with a group dinner.

Before leaving the island of Racha Yai J-Lynn and I did our third dive skills lesson at the dive site called Homerun. Once we were back on the boat we started off on our way to the Racha Noi Bay, we ate breakfast in transit. J-Lynn and I were excited to get back into the water to do our final diving skills exercise. We practiced underwater navigation and a couple other vital skills.

Neil told us that during the underwater navigation exercise he was going to move so that we didn't cheat and just swim back to where him. J-Lynn took this quite seriously. In fact he swam right past us and kept going. I stayed put and Neil chased after him. Once J-Lynn was back in our company I finished up my skills and we were soon official Open Water SCUBA divers. During the second dive of the day I brought a 35mm camera that one of Sam's coworkers had lent him. Unfortunately the pressure from our diving depth smooshed the camera's capture button down. When you came up to a shallower depth the pressure would ease off and you could take pictures...but that's no fun!

Our third dive of the day was at Racha Noi's Banana Bay. After that dive we traveled back to Racha Yai and did our last dive of the day back at Racha Yai's Lucy's Reef. During our final day dive we saw a massive jellyfish which I managed to sneek a picture next to! We also saw a scorpionfish and an octopus.

After our last dive we came back to the Karon Beach marina so that we could drop off Neil, stay the night there, and pick up more divers the next day to join us. Sam, the Jeffs, and I disembarked and went into Patong Bay to get some drinks, we also bought some dvds to watch on the boat, ( Knocked Up, Transformers, and Die Hard 4).

Night everyone!