I've been here for ten days already and haven't posted to my blog. Reason is the internet at the condo is horrible this year. I can't hardly check my e-mail, much less post.
So here goes:
Connie and I arrived on Thursday the 31st. On Friday we started our Rescue Dive Class. We did the written part on Friday and bright and early Sat morning we met at Kiawakapu Beach to start the water part. It was a long tough day, in and out of the water, dragging people out etc. But compared to Sunday, it was a walk in the park. On Sunday the ocean did not cooperate with us at all. By 8:00 it was already starting to get ugly and by 2:00 pm it was truly tough. The main thing is we got it done. And I never have to do it again.
Don and Sylvia came Monday night and we started diving on Tuesday. We've gone diving every day but one since then. Sylvia was sick on Wed, so we stayed home and Bob, Don and Connie went to Haleakala for the day. Don was very impressed since this was his first time up there. Sylvia could only stand to be sick for half a day and she had to go do something. So we went out to the bus stop and waited for a bus and went were it took us. We ended up at the Safeway and indulged in Stone Cold Ice Cream.
The diving has been great. We have done a lot of equipment adjusting and we have had equipment failures. Connie's camera lost the screen so she has no way to know what she is seeing and my dive computer died on our night dive. More than a bit scary. It was night and I had no idea how much air I had or how deep we were. I hung in for awhile then asked if we could go back.
I've been trying out Jane's BC and I like it well enough. I tried Connie's new Diva and I really like it. It's the first BCD I've worn that felt like it was part of me.
Don and Sylvia leave tomorrow, so we can't dive, but we will snorkel. Connie leaves on Tuesday and that leaves Bob and I till I go home on the 21st. Too much fun.
