20th September 2011

We’ve not been teaching at all over the last couple of weeks.  The peak season has passed and we’ve only been offered a one person Chinese wreck speciality which neither of us can teach.  So fingers crossed we’ll get work soon.

To keep busy, we’ve taken out some eco students, Sylvain & Kim on some afternoon and night dives which has been fun gathering garbage and doing some Coral watch. Yesterday, we hit the HMS Sattakut for some fun, and to ascertain what life had come to live at the wreck in the last few months. 

 Today, the eco gang met at Crystal and took the longtail out just offshore to try and break up/bring up a sunken boat which is destroying a area of coral.  For something that’s been in the water a few months now, we only managed to break small sections of the boat with a hammer and a few tools.  On our next visit, we definitely need a crow bar or two.  It’s really hard work.

What else have we been up to?  I cleaned and sanded down one of the eco boards near the pool which took hours.  Then when I was just about to paint it, some DMT’s came along and said they’d help which they did and now, one girl’s drawing a few designs/wording for the edging which will look super once it’s done.   Nath, Sylvain and Si put a new thatching on the roof, so it almost looks like new.  

The weather has not been great over the last week.  The day usually starts off lovely and then by lunch, the skies darken, wind picks up and then it lashes down.  

Pretty irritating when we were suppose to deploy our boat/ship at Buoyancy world this week which has now been postponed   ..typical!!

Si’s always busy with UK work and is at present downloading a film for tonight’s Eco movie night ‘Carbon Nation’ which I’m very much looking forward to seeing...

Well, it’s time to shower, get dressed and whiz down to Crystal, ready for the movie night.

Bye