Diving

I went a day diving to Kho Phi Phi Leh which was my first experience outside Turkey so I was totally surprised how much you can see in the water! It was like swimming in an aquarium but then a very big one. It was amazing what I’ve seen but the total cast of Nimo passed me on my visit down there and many colourful fish from which I will remember the name at the end of my trip and many many dives.

I met another Dutch girl on the boat called Marieke ( I told you that the Dutch are everywhere) who was doing her first day of her Open Water Diver course. After my two dives is was clear that it only would take 2 days to do mine too so I agreed to join her the next day to have our practical part together.  After a long day with first a swimming pool session with tricks like, taking off your mask and blow with your nose the water out of it, take your BCD off and put it on again, swim with a snorkel and balance in a Buddha position in the water. After a quick break we went with a long tail boat to the local Islands in the sea. There more exercises to show what we can or what we need to know to receive the certificate. It was exhausting and when I thought it was over my German teacher Julia said ok girls now you swim to that rock and back! I was hoping to have my lunch now but she came up with more tricks for us to do. Finally after our second dive and a last exercise that I had to swim with my ‘tired diver Marieke’ to the boat we could pack up our gear and have that long and needed portion of sweet and sour chicken with rice.

It was a long day but worth it was it was a successful one the only thing left for me is to study my manual and watch the 2 DVD’s provided and then do my 50 questions exam to receive my certificate. I’m planning to do that in the next couple of days with hopefully a successful result.

I can’t wait to have more aquarium experiences and see more Nimo’s on my journey as I will be visiting more top 10 Diving destinations along the way.

A successful practice day with Maria and Julia

Diving with Michel, Marika and Julia