Just another day...
25.06.2007
30 °C
I haven't really got much news but thought some of you might be interested in what a typical day is like here!
If I'm diving in the morning, it's an early start - at the dive centre for about 6.30, fortunately my bungalow is just up the road so I can roll out of bed at 6.20! At the dive centre, we help the DMs pack the equipment for customers and get everything ready, and load up the boat. Usually time for a coffee and a bit of brekkie before we pile in the long tail boat which takes us to the main dive boat and head off to the dive sites. Sometimes I dive with the other DMTs for fun, and sometimes assist on courses.
We usually get back to Sairee where the dive centre is around 11.30 and have lunch there - the wife of one of the instructors does thai food for lunch every day for 50 baht (80p). If we're diving in the afternoon, we do the same again and head off at 12.30.
I don't usually dive twice a day so the rest of the time I'm usually at the dive centre in the day, just hanging out, reading or playing cards, and sometimes studying - got a physics exam coming up in the next few days unfortunately!! We also have other stuff to do like working on mapping projects and skills, so tomorrow for example all the DMTs are doing a skills circuit, which basically means we practice our underwater skills like mask removal and buoyancy to demonstration standard.. which should be interesting since I haven't done much skills practice since I did my open water course 7 years ago! There's a lot of flexibility with the course so we just come and go as we please and aren't expected to be at the dive centre all day, but a lot of people are because our bungalows can get quite hot and stuffy in the day and the dive centre is in a nice cool breezy spot.
The day at the dive centre usually ends about 6pm. Sometimes we go to Lotus Bar on the beach to watch the sun set and have a couple of drinks - happy hour from 6-7, beers and spirits all 50 baht. I'm developing a taste for gin and manao (lemon) believe it or not, most of you know how much I hate gin!
The other Scuba Junction hang out places are Choppers, a sports bar, which does half price food and 2 for 1 beers in happy hour. If it's a quiet night some of us sometimes go to Coffee Boat or Tongs for cheap food and then watch a movie or go online. Party nights are usually back at Lotus, which is a pretty cool beach bar with fire twirlers every night and occasionally good music.
Not a bad life really...
Posted by lauraclark 06:15 Archived in Thailand
