RAD adventure day 2

If you haven't read about day one of my dive weekend, check that out first(see post below.) If you are in the right place...well here we go : )

Day two I woke up at 6 AM--if there's one thing I love about camping its that you wake up so early and aren't even tired. Its like its just the way of the world wake with the sun and go to bed when it goes down. I love that. Anyway, dive 4 took place before breakfast. This morning we were heading out to do our deep dive. No pics from this dive because they said we wouldn't see much this deep. True, not much was going on that deep. We worked our ways down to 82 feet. BUT I did see a barracuda swim by! They are like really long fish, maybe 3.5 feet and pretty thick beasts. While we were down there we were suppose to check to see if we got narked-basically when you go to depths like this the nitrogen level in your blood stream becomes so high that you almost act drunk. You become a lot slower at simple tasks and do stupid things. One time (not this dive) I took my regulator out of my mouth --for no apparent reason. I think I was narked then. Anyway, we were told (above water) we would be counting forward and backward to 10 underwater. Honestly I think I did it better underwater than above. After this our instructor cracked some eggs underwater (using my head to crack it actually) It was really cool. Because the pressure is so strong at this depth the egg yolk actually stayed together. It looked like a little planet underwater. We passed it around -squeezed it, whatever it didn't break apart. Pretty cool, hey?

Oh random aside--I know Maggie(my twin!) will appreciate this. I couldn't find my one piece bathing suit when I was packing for the trip so I had to wear a bikini. For any of you that know me well enough this was a big deal because I'm pretty insecure about the way I look. But as I'm sure Maggie will point out--Australia is helping me grow and change, *sarcastic wohoo...*

After a delicious breakfast (managed to spill on my wetsuit) and a 2 hour interval we set sail for the opposite end of the island. WHAT A VIEW. I was dumbfounded by the view. (Sorry to say I don't think the pictures do it justice-see the picture at the top of the blog webpage) We were out to do a drift dive. Basically jump in the water and let the current take you for a ride! This was a great dive, didn't have to put much effort into kicking and saw a lot of great reef fish. We also covered a lot of the island, almost making it back to where we started.

Here we took a little rest, sunbathing on the top of the boat. Wow that feels good : ) and we had a bit of carrot cake that the skippers wife prepared (never met her though). After a good few jumps off the top we made our last dive, which was simply a fun dive. Scott and I went out went one direction on the reef and came back a bit deeper then navigated our way back to the boat (or pretty closely!)

Sadly after this we had to head back to reality--I mean the mainland. It was sad to see the weekend fly by so fast. But it was SO much fun. Definetly competing for the best weekend yet with my Cairns trip.

When we got back to shore we traveled a ways and had a good little barbeque, finally heading back to the dive shop. I had to wait for my gear to get cleaned and fill out our dive logs. But the dive crew were all there and basically begged us to come back again. I think they really had a lot of fun with us. They gave us (the americans and I) shirts to keep and continued to ask me to come back and do my rescue diver course with them. We'll see!

WHAT A GREAT WEEKEND!! : )