First Day of Open Water Diving

Today was my first day of diving in the open sea, get down! Thon and I were gonna tear it up.

Got up at 6am, got ready and went to get picked up. Got there, grabbed a coffee and got all my gear, got on the boat with everyone diving that day. boat ride of around 40 mins we went over all the info i had learned the day before. got to Sail Rock and jumped on in!

My first dive was 46 minutes at 12 meters and i had to do some skills and stuff before we got to stroll around this awesome rock formation. I saw some amazing fish and coral which i will list in a sec. Thon was really cool and i just wanted to keep going but i guess decompression sickness is a bad deal? Took an hour break and jumped back in, the second time i got to do some skills deeper and was down for 54 minutes. I was glad that I got to stay down there for so long because there was just so many amazing, colorful things to see. And it is very comfortable under da sea. i actually had a little stomach ache before getting in, but once i was in the water everything felt better. I actually was told that diving is a good hangover cure????

Here is a list of the fish i saw:
skunk clownfish, moonish idol, yellowback fusilier, yellow boxfish, pacific lionfish(scary looking), like 6 barracudas overall which were cool and big, krempfs wart slug, sea urchins, mushroom coral, Anemones, surgeonfish, blue damselfish etc. Also saw some triggerfish that attack you if you come too close because they are protecting their eggs and mate, i didnt go to close

There is just so much color that i wasnt expecting and the whole feeling of being that far down and just hanging out without being attached to anything and being able to explore underwater is an amazing feeling. I feel like scuba is definitely a relaxing activity that you can do forever. And everyone who dives seems like they are just cool folks.

Tomorrow I go on my third and fourth open water dives and get my PADI certification. Should be cool because now i get to go to 18 meters and I actually know what im looking at, haha.

After i got back, i zonked out in my hammock and had all sorts of damn weird dreams. The malaria medication i am taking makes me have the most jacked up dreams in the world! I had heard about it but in Siem Reap and now i have been really going crazy in my dreams, i really wish i had a video camera in my head because this stuff is nuts!

woke up and turned over to see the water and went right back to sleep, haha. gonna take it easy again tonight but this island is like a party animal all the time! last night they had a huge foam party and it just goes on and on. Hard to deny it but im gonna rest for a couple of nights, lame.