Monday, November 15, 2010

Hiatus Restarted, Then Terminated Again




God, finally. This page took just under 7 minutes to load up. Anyway. Travels are still good. Don;t worry if have been. I've officially been certified as an Advanced diver and an Enriched air diver. I'm more than pleased with this. The enriched air gives me more bottom time with less decompression time which is a dream for divers. Usually you stay down at 20 m for, say 20 minutes then gradually surface and at the end of your dive you stop at 5 m for 5 minutes for decompression. Now i can stay at 20 m for around 35-40 minutes and only have around 3 minutes deco time. It's a dream for divers; trust me. Speaking of diving, it's been an absolute dream here. The visibility on a bad day is still around 20 metres. We've seen loads of marine life including entire schools of barracuda, dozens of sea turtles, and of course la piece de resistance, that whale shark; which people still talk about.
I was told I look like Jesus today, and I'm still not sure whether to take it as an insult or compliment.
The weather has been fair lately. It's rained off and on for the past two days, but it stops suddenly and then the sun comes out. Today was more a gloomy day. Sunny in the morning, but at around noon the sky turned dark and the water turned rough. I've booked all my flights and everything. Organizing! A Kai Michaluk first. I head for Vietnam on the 23rd to see Jenn which I'm absolutely pumped for. Apparently they've recently opened up a skating rink in Ho Chi Minh, so we may take a visit. It's obligatory that I have skill skating since my country of residence is Canada. That is all the update I have. I'll post a another update as soon as things happen to me. Until then.

Kai Michaluk signing off

Now to wait while the pictures load. it's 7:59 now.
Aaaaand now the internet shut off for the night at my bungalow. So it's an evening excursion for myself down the beach to the restaurant that has working internet.
And so, my blog post ends at 8:17

pic is pat and i and our driver on a motorcycle heheh. I've seen 5 people on these so don't worry.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Hiatus Terminated

Sorry about the hiatus as of late. We arrived in the Philippines 3 days ago (?) and it's been spectacular. The weather is nice, people are nice and the diving is phenomenal. I've done 4 dives now since being here, and one of them I actually spotted a whale shark! It was crazy. Just seeing this thing the size of a bus loom past you. I immediately told everyone in the group about it and we all oggled it for a bit until we resurfaced. It wasn't until we resurfaced that I just witnessed one of the rarest spectacles of diving. *Everyone* was raving about this whale shark siting. So that was neat. Nothing too special the next times. The bungalow is quaint. Nothing spectacular. It's in a nice location with a bar and restaurant 30 steps away. I booked my flights to Vietnam to visit Jenn last night. I leave on the 22nd. I can't wait. It's going to be such a blast. More to come as things happen. Pictures tonight sometime.