Yesterday I did my first dive trip with a boat. It had two decks, the lower one with the dive equipment and the upper one for the stay. It was crowded, 22 divers and 11 crew and guides. When I booked the trip, the lady told me its 1,5h hours but of course it was longer, over2,5h. Taxi pickup from my hotel was at 7.00h not my preferred time... The weather was not so good, it was raining and we had some waves. They offered sea-sickness pills onboard I only took one for lunch. I was not satisfied with the some things, for example one guy showed a damaged diving card with a missing picture and they let him dive. But of course its mainly everyone else responsibility. I was diving in a group of 4 with a guide. The guide had to bring one diver back to the boat after 15mins because he had blood in his mask. It came from the nose, probably the pressure under water was to strong. The diver did not see this and the guide was more scared than he. We went to a small rock which could be surrounded easily in 40mins. Bud we didnt make it because of the diver. And when we went to the other side i saw that my dive buddy was running out of air so we all had to go back. Lunch on the boat was difficult, I drank some salty sea water when we got out of the water and the boat was lying parallel to the waves. I tried to eat a little bit but felt not well. Then i decided to eat one of this sea sickness pills. Got better then.
The second dive was ok but also very short, 40mins. We saw nothing exiting, a blue dotted stingray, some morays, some barracudas. I was concentrating much on myself, keeping the altitude and checking everything. Then 2,5 h back with the boat and also 1 h with the taxi to my hotel where i finally arrived at 18.30h. Long day so far, eat a little and took a nap.
Afterwards wanted to go in the city for some beer.... but no beer at all, all bars were closed!!! But it was no bank holiday or any other special day... it was ELECTION DAY.
They are closing here all amusement areas when they held elections, imagine this in germany or elsewhere in the world. You can buy some beer in the supermarket and drink it in your room but all bars are closed. If we would introduce that in bavaria, probably the CSU would loose their majority because the people had to go with a clear mind in the election cabin.
And even worse, the elections here are long, from friday till sunday 18h. No party this weekend, poor me. :-( And there are other elections are on dec. 23th.These are the more important country-wide elections, hope nothing happens here. Thailand right now has a military government. Good to know this in advance...
Today the weather is not good, cloudy with heavy waves which reach the beginning of the beach bar. Will do a beach walk later with a headband and of course its a good time for updating my blog and get a massage etc... The other guys here in my hotel have no problem with the weather, they do their drinking games no matter whats going on...
