Scuba

3/28
Day three on the gorgeous island of Koh Rong. We signed up for two fun dives and I was looking forward to a day away from the sand fleas and mosquitos.

We started getting our gear together at 1030 and loaded up around 1115, by 1120 the boat was barely out of the dock and Michael was already bleeding. I was sitting in the front of the boat with our new friend Kathleen and we made room for Michael when he got on but he wanted to sit on the other side and while navigating over there he has a major run in with the anchor. I see someone getting the first aid kit and I see a bloody foot but I had no idea it was Michael. Finally Kathleen realizes, I yell over to ask if he's alright since we can't see each other and everyone seems to think ill be running over but lets face it Michael hurts himself often. The beta-dyne made it look far worse then it actually was but he did still take off an entire layer of skin on his pinky toe. How that boy still has toes is beyond me.

Michael's cut was probably the most exciting part of the day because the dives were pretty boring. Call us dive snobs but going 8 meters for an hour and seeing a few fish isn't all that great. Plus my attention span doesn't last that long, I get bored quick and prefer deeper, shorter dives. The second dive was better, we saw some huge starfish, and more fish. There were 3 young dive masters in training on the boat with us. They are stowaways not planning on leaving for months and think this is the best diving ever, it's not. It crappy diving, it just cheap to get certified so a lot of people do it.

The good part was that we were on the boat with our two new friends and we met another guy so the evening was a blast. There is an Italian restaurant on the island that someone recommended so we all headed out for dinner and spent a few hours eating pasta, drinking beers and chatting with our new friends with the waves crashing around us. The other good part was that we hadn't dove in two years and it's a perishable skill so it was nice to get back into it. I had a really hard time clearing my ears to begin with but the second dive was much better.

Just another day in paradise!