Thursday, October 1, 2009

Holy Trinity... I’m so filled up... on prawns!


Day 3

Dad went out to the Great Barrier Reefs today on a day tour. He got to see nemo before me! But told nemo to wait there as i’ll be seeing him the next day.

Today’s my 2nd day at course. We started with 3 hours of pool training. Combined with yesterday’s training, we have basically covered everything we need to know when scuba diving in the ocean. The most amazing feeling was hovering in mid water feeling weightless. This is the closest feeling to being an astronaut! You could do summersaults, do moon jumps all while breathing into the regulator sounding like Darth Vader :)

For lunch we went out as a group to a night market food court then went to the chemist to buy sea-sickness pills and to Pro Dive’s shop to pick up the gear we’ll be taking onto the boat the next day. After this we went back to the training centre where we did Module 3, 4, 5 and sat the final exam.

The whole class passed the theory part- half way to our dive certificate!

For dinner tonight, free flow of giant tiger prawns the size of a hand, gorgeous dessert selections and freshly brewed coffee attracted us to have a buffet at Acacia Court Hotel.

Tomorrow, my bathers (aussie term for togs) will become my underwear as i board a boat for 3 days, 2 nights scuba diving trip out to the Great Barrier Reefs! This will consist of 4 training dives + after the second day, i will be a certified diver!! Then we get 4 dives as a certified diver and a heap of snorkelling time.

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