Friday, January 30, 2009

Padi Open Water Divers!!

Congratulations to Sonja and John having successfully completed their 4 day PADI Open Water Course. Yesterday, Day 4 of their course, saw the couple going to sea for their two Boat Dives. The day at sea is a great day out starting at 0800 at the Dive Centre, travelling the 200 yards to the boat, preparing the dive gear on the way to the first dive site, a light breakfast and then the first dive.






The first dive is followed by a debriefing from the Instructors with a light snack of fruit whilst waiting for the obigatory one hour surface interval before the second and final dive of the four dive course.




Today the four of us (Sonja, John, Jai and me) went to Kata Beach for the final dive of the couple's holiday as they leave for UK tomorrow. Completing the Open Water Course has been a great achievement for Sonja in particular as when she arrived she had never been in the sea and did not enjoy going out of her depth.

But now Sonja's hooked on diving and has been 18 metres out of her depth....Well Done, Sonja!






Kata Beach...........there's a fantastic coral reef off to the right of the picture with stacks of fish life and colourful corals in clear water....a perfect place for shore diving.





....and the perfect way to finish the day....colourful sunset with a few beers on the beach....as they kept saying...it IS paradise here.





Tonight we'll all be going out to our current favourite beach bar for Sonja and John's farewell party.......with Lydia, Party Demon extraordinaire, in our company the photographs for tomorrow's blog should be a scream...watch this space!


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