Week Three - What a week!

Unfortunatly no photos this week but there will be some to follow. One of the guys had a camera to capture a truely amazing moment.

The week began as a normal week. I passed my algae test so was feeling pretty happy. We took part in a reef clean and managed to get a few bags of rubbish. We got a certificate had a picnic and just enjoyed a day off base. We started our teaching, i was teaching adult beginners. It was good fun and we learnt ´hello, may name is Sara, I come from England, I am happy! It was good to interact with the locals, it is such a small place that we see the students when we are in town so we are really getting to know people and intergrate into the community.

So to the next three days. They say that things come in threes, they certainly did for me this week...........

We went out to dive on a new dive site, which was pretty exciting, no one knew what we would find there. It was amazing, lots of corals that we don´t see on the regular sites that we are diving and lots more fish. At about 5 mins before the end of the dive we passed over a cave and there was an 8ft Nurse Shark. She swam away so gracefully, it was so tempting to swim after her but we resisted.

The next day i was waiting to go on the second dive of the day when the returning crew raidio in to say they have found a pod of 40 dolphins and they were going to follow them for a while. We all thought that they would have gone but we raced out to the spot and they were still there. We got into the water and swam with them for a while. It was clearly mating season they were about 4 foot infront of us so we had front row seats! They swam around us and then left.

After all the excitment calmed down we went to our dive site and continued with the testing. In the middle of the dive we heard the dolphins clicking. We were looking for them but took a while to see them. All of a sudden there were three dolphins right next to us. I nearly chocked with excitment. THIS WAS AN INCREDIBLE DAY!

To top it off we saw two loggerhead turltes swimming.

The next day we were still high as kites but where do you go from here! On the way out to our dive we saw two loggerhead turtles on the surface, mating. It was an amazing site and not something that you would get to experience very often. Three brilliant days with some amazing sitings.

Tonight we have a jungle fever party to mark the end of week three. It is getting harder, living in such confined conditions. People are starting to anoy each other so i hope the combination of an amazing week of sitings and a party to let our hair down will release some steam!

Hew, one of the instructors here, had his camera when we saw the dolphins and the turtles so i hope to get a few pictures from him and post them sometime next week.

7 weeks to go. The days are going really quickly, we are so busy in the day that they just fly by.

bye for now

x
Sara