James Bond and condoms

26/7/11

After another trot round the island the day was devoted to splaying with formulas on the spread sheet depicting our ability to expand the empire and also job searching.

As darkness fell we set off four a night dive- very James Bond I’ll have you know. Once at the dive sight it was dark and armed with a torch we rolled off the boat and into the water. My use of air is never that conservative at the best of times even less so as I was somewhat nervous. That said I’d had the foresight to ask for a bigger cylinder so was able to breath with gay abandon. The dive itself was somewhat spooky but rather cool. There were frequent moments of unease as I would lose James from my line of sight. Normally he was within arm’s reach!

Being underwater at night we saw an aquariums worth of different creatures. We saw crabs burrowing into the sand, crabs that looked like rocks, a 2metere long moray eel on most amazingly a turtle. Whilst we have seen more than our fair share of turtles on other dives this was special as from its resting place it swam directly towards us and was within touching distance. Its shell was illuminated by our touches and as it past is was a sight to behold.

After diving we the three of us met Kate and had beers served in condoms. Well to me and you they would have been bottles of beer in a cooler but the waiters grasp of English only included the essentials and the safe sex message has obviously been promoted here. Later on the walk back I told James that I was teaching Doreen new words and may particular favourite was tellytubbyissames a word which could be used to describe something that is nonsense. Much to my amusement and his consternation he believed this say ‘well I have never heard that word before.’ To which I used one of my favourite retorts ‘go to da blog.’