Let's go Diving

It was another early morning start. I was to meet the divers at the dive Cafe at 6:25. Luckily I wasn't the only one who looked tired at this time of the day. I got my gear and we went down to the pier to take the boat.

It was a big, three level dive boat with space for 30 divers. We set out to the Chomphon Pinnacle in the north west of the island. I buddied up with a Ciara, girl from the hostel and Bertam one of the Instructors.

We set up our gear and went up for a coffee while cruising over the water. Bertram went through the dive with us and showed us a couple of fish we may see and their signals.

Soon it was time to get wet. Here we only needed 3mm shorties (not against the cold water but to protect us from stings and scratches) as oppose to the 7mm + 5mm from Ireland which were still cold :-).
We jumped off the side of the boat into the 30 degree warm water and so it began. I was quite excited to finally do some fun dives in such a amazing place.

The first dive was already down to 29m and we saw an abundance of fish and corals. It was just great but I was so exited that I ran out of air first. No harm done after some scrambled eggs and a toast we had a second dive at the same site. This time I was more accustomed to being in the water, that I could even look around more and check out caves and little hiding spots, another great dive.
The weather had been really nice, but on the way back we saw some could strating to form and even saw two tornadoes just a couple of km far away.

Back at the dive cafe, I immediately signed up for a night dive that evening.

Don't be fooled by the missing gravity in the water, diving is pretty exhausting, especially since I haven't done it in a while, so I wanted to have another nap back at the Hostel.

I just made it through the door when a tropical rainstorm hammering down. It went on a while and I was wondering if we were going to be able to do the night dive.

I killed the remaining hours by eating another burrito as I didn't want to leave the hostel while it rained... but just an hour before we were to meet again at La Bombona the rain stopped.

This time we had to take another dive ship which we reached by scooter and longtail boat (one of long thai boats with the screw sticking out in the back).

The ship took us out to a dive site in the south east called shark island, which unfortunately doesn't host any sharks but loads of other life.

This dive was completely different but not less exciting than the first two. It was an eerie atmosphere down there with the rays of our torches slicing through the dark seas.