These past days have been flying by. I can't believe how fast time goes. I have been doing my normal routine, with nothing to out of ordinary. There has been several dives with studying and sleeping in between. On Thursday we got a intern. She is a divemaster and is getting her instructor certification. She is Austrian, and that definitely took me off guard. She is nice enough, she is just very serious and seems to be yelling all the time. It is kinda funny. Yesterday morning I had just gotten up and was still groggy. I went to the main part of the house and she was there. She preceded to ask me a question, but to me it sounded like she was yelling at me for something. I just shrank down in my chair and mumbled "What? I'm sorry....ummm...I don't know." She just looked at me like I was crazy and walked off. I really felt ridiculous, but I just don't expect someone to come at me like that so early. I guess I will just have to get used to it.
Anyway, the dives have been pretty good. Yesterday we went to Milton's Bight and Emily's Escape. The first dive was a fun dive...it lasted 45 minutes and we swam quite a ways. The cool things I saw were a trunkfish and a small sargassum file fish. The rest of the time I was just taking in the amazing coral formations. On the second dive the visibility took a turn for the worst. There was a storm brewing offshore and it stirred things up a bit. I went down with the dive instructor, Julian. We saw some toadfish, which are the coolest things. They have these beards that are several inches long. Then when we were searching for the boat, Julian told me to stay there (in a sense) and that he was going back to see something. So he left me there just floating in the water column. I just watched the minutes pass and tried not to think about what was behind me. Let me say that I really hate being left alone in the middle of the ocean. Anyway, he came back and we eventually found the boat together. That was the end of diving this week.
Then today, I woke up and decided to make banana pancakes. They were really good and I also made a carmel creme banana sauce to go with it. Let me say that they were the bomb. Definitely, I will make those again. Afterwards a few of us went down to the docks to swim and goof around. After eating lunch and stuff, we decided to go to the beach and swim out to the reef to snorkel. As I was waiting for everyone else, I just stood in the shallows and was looking around. Out of the corner of my eye I say something slithering thorough the water towards me and I quickly jumped out of the water. It was a moray eel that came about 6 inches from my feet. It was really freaky. Once we got out the reef, we say some huge schools of fish, a barracuda, and quite a few lobster. Then as we were walking back to the beach. I started to step down on a rock and then I noticed that it moved. It ended up being an octopus. I started to mess around with in since it was in ankle deep water. It preceded to squirt me with water from it's jets and then suck onto my arm. I, of course, started freaking out thinking it was going to take a finger off with it's beak. After that I decided to leave it alone. That was about it for my day and now I am just studying for my equipment exam on scuba.
Tomorrow we are going in to the shop and supposedly we are going to have 8 new customers for the week. Plus I get to meet the other instructors that have been out of town. It will be a busy week and hopefully I will have lots of stories to tell.
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