Diving

19/7/11-

Diving was again a sight to behold in terms of beauty and creatures of the deep. After rolling into the water from the boat James Bond style we headed underwater. We again saw lots of corral, a multitude of brightly coloured tropical fish, 4 green turtles and some Napoleon fish. Now these were a sight to behold. Think fish shared about 1.5m long and .5m long with a lumpy protrusion like a box on their head (30cm by 30cm) and a beak like mouth. Combine this with 12 of them swimming just 3m away from us and you get the picture- stunning!

After diving we lunched with Doreen and then James feeling unwell in the tummy department went back to our shack. I spent the afternoon exploring the island and reading before returning to see James. We decided that he was best staying close to the bathroom so I would go out for dinner and return in a couple of hours with a pizza for James.

What we had not reckoned upon was the indifferent and incredibly slow service we would receive. Some 2.5 hours later I returned with said pizza along with an aging lesion I had met at dinner and a resolve not to get bothered by poor service. The aging lesbian was Kate. She grew up in London and had subsequently moved to Oz. Her commentary on the social change she had seen in her 60 years was really interesting and as always made me glad to have been born in the 80’s as opposed to any time before that!