Scuba Diving Adventure.

Written 21^st August 2012

Today was SO fun! I went scuba diving for the first time! Steve and I were walking along the road on the way to the beach and we passed a dive shop. We went in to ask about prices and if they had beginner courses. They said they were running a introductory course in 15 minutes. At first I wasn't sure if I wanted to do it but then I decided to.

So 15 minutes later I was seated and listening to instructions on how to scuba dive. The theory went on for 45 minutes and our instructor was really good. He showed us some hand signals, how the regulator works, how to put your regulator back in your mouth if it comes out and get rid of the water, how to find your regulator if you loose it and how to clear the water from your mask if it gets in.

Then we all got suited up

and stomped down to the beach in our heavy gear.

It was so nice to get into that warm, crystal clear water. First we lay on our backs to get our flippers on. Then we all had to hold hands and put our faces under water to practice breathing and get used to it. It is pretty weird at first. All the bubbles are coming out by your face and you can breath so normally it feels odd. But after a while you get quite used to it.

Next we went down to the bottom one by one (it wasn't scary because it was only about two metres deep). Then we started to follow our instructor. Me and another girl had an instructor and a dad with his twin sons (who's 14^th birthday it was) had another guy. We kept following out instructor along the bottom gradually getting deeper and deeper.

Steve borrowed a snorkel and mask and flippers so he could come with me and he glided along gracefully with us.

He is so at home in the water. He's practically a fish! Or maybe a mer-man. :) We started seeing cute fish and weeds and strange balls that looked a bit like sponges but weren't. I was a bit worried at first because I was not sure if I would be able to equalise because I have never been able to do it when we snorkel.

As we got a little deeper I did begin to have some problems. The pressure was tight in my head and I couldn't make my ears pop. Finally I managed it and we went even deeper.

It's exciting being able to breath under the sea! You can look at everything so close up.

Steve looks like he's hunting me in this photo I recon. :)

We swam past a submerged toilet and Steve pretended to take a crap on it.

Haha, he is so funny. He cut his finger though quite bad. Poor boy! We swam on a little more. Then out instructor got some fish food and fed the little fishies! It was awesome. They were all swimming around us like a little tornado of mini fish! There were sweet plain ones and lovely colourful ones.

After the fish feeding frenzy we started back towards shore. The instructor showed us we could do flips and I had a go and got it right away. It was fun. We kept going slowly along looking at things.

It is amazing what you can see underwater when you can stay right down on the bottom! Little lives are going on in minuscule detail for you to observe. It's lovely! I was sad to get out of the water because it was SO fun! Steve was freezing because he didn't borrow a wetsuit. The water is pretty warm when you are swimming but we were in there for ages. The whole course including the theory was 3 hours. We went back to the dive centre and I got my certificate and photos.

Steve is going on a ship wreck dive tomorrow. He is excited!

This is the cut he got from the toilet.

After the diving we had another lunch with a view. Then we went to the beach for a read and I had a nice swim. After that it was dinner time already so we had dinner (with a view). We tried another Greek dish called Moussaka which is a bit like lasagna but had egg plant instead of pasta. It was delicious!

And that was another day in paradise!