04-10-2014
Sorry it has been so long since my last post. I have been rather busy. As of today I have now been on 36 dives. It is a little crazy to that two weeks ago I had no dive experience of any kind. Now I have completed my PADI open water, advanced, rescue diver certifications and I am getting started on some of my dive master training. Being in the water every day has been amazing. Every day I see so so many different kinds of marine life. I see many of the same fish and coral but with every dive I can definitively say, that is a red breasted wrasse, there is a school of chevron barracuda, but now I am tuning in to the smaller things or the less common. Like finding a small purple jelly fish floating along almost unnoticed or just watching the prawn Gobi and his prawn buddy hanging out working together. However, it sea life never ceases to amaze me. Every dive brings its own calm serenity as you relax your whole body and feel the ocean move around you. It is these moments as well as the moments where you come around a corner and instantly you are engulfed in a large school of barracuda swimming all around you. All you can do is look around in amazement as you float there with them. The school parts and a giant grooper sits idle at the top of a patch of coral only a meter or two away. You breath and take in the splendor as fish swim all around. I am excited to see how the picture came out that Anita took with the giant trooper resting quietly just above me. Chumpon pinnacle always amazes
