I'm in Tulear AGAIN. Came in on a whim yesterday afternoon because the two Australian sisters, Clare and Michelle, are leaving so I just decided to come with them. I have to leave in a couple of hours (it's 8 am now) to hope to be back by kids' club at 3. Christina's not there and another gasy staff member, Lova, who speaks pretty good English is going to help out. We're supposed to do collection of sharp objects today and then figure out how to dispose of them. It'll be in a hole, but I don't know if we can dig a hole for their general use or if we should just use the ReefDoctor hole today as a model. But I'm afraid if we don't go ahead and dig them one they'll never dig themselves one. It's also fady to bury anything (fady being taboo) because burial has to do with the dead- hence the reason for all the giant poos on the beach- so this could stand in the way. I just hope I'll get back in time to figure it out. Egil is still getting settled and doing more observation than anything so hopefully he'll be better equipped to help more soon.
I finally am getting my buoyancy right with diving. Yesterday we did two hour long dives and I finally felt like a legit scuba diver. I'm glad I've gotten to have a lot of fun dives where I can just swim around and am not so focused on performing some skill when I'm not even 100 percent comfortable in the water.
Monday we did an AMAZING dive on the exterior at a site called cathedral. Since I don't have my advanced yet we had to stay at 18 meters and above but it was still the deepest I've ever been and the topography was gorgeous- rock and coral canyons and caves, just amazing. We saw sooo many fish. A couple of giant grouper almost gave us a heartattack; Will was my buddy and he grabbed me when he saw them so my heart skipped a beat automatically thinking something was wrong, and then we both went crazy not knowing where to look. Sensory overload. Now I'm spoiled and am only going to want to go back to exterior sites. But that being said, my two dives yesterday were at Ankaranjelita and Vato Soa, both of which I've been to and the latter of which I've been to at least 5 or 6 times, and they were really great dives since I'm getting the hang of everything. I start Advanced this upcoming week I believe. I'm going to try and not come back to Tulear until I have my Advanced because I think I'm mildly addicted to coming here. And my Denver app is STILL not up, and I'm going to guess it'll be up Sept 15 like it was last year.
Anyway, hope to hear from anyone soon.
Alex
i misssss you
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