SCUBA!!!!

Our Open Water class with our French-Canadian instructor Biskit:

For those of you who don´t already SCUBA, imagine if you will the sound Darth Vader makes when he breathes: the steady inhale and exhale, that sound is still echoing in my head from earlier today as I got to swim amongst beautiful tropical fish and a sea turtle. I have only been diving for one day but I absolutely love it, and feel as if I just may be hooked for life. Which is just what I need, another expensive, time consuming hobbie; but wow, it opens up a whole another world (I feel like the cheesy voice on the PADI movie: it might be scary at first but once you master the skills there is a whole exciting underwater world to explore)!


I could totally see myself getting stuck here and staying here to get my Advanced, maybe my Dive Masters and become and instructor like this girl I met here, Lynn. Talk about a small world, but I met this girl on the ferry over here who used to go to U of O, so already the Oregon connection, but it turns out she worked with a bunch of my good friends from Pomona and even a boy I grew up with at the Oregon Bus Project. So obviously we became fast friends and are planning on going on a night dive together in search of Octopi as soon as I am certified.




She works at a local dive shop, and bartends at this amazing bar called Tree Tanic, which is a treehouse bar connected to a hotel built by this amazing sculptor/artist that has some of the most amazing mosaics and sculptures I have ever seen. The whole place looks like a Gaudi version of Alice and Wonderland. I wandered around it last night for hours in amazement and will try to post pictures up as soon as I get fast internet. Oh and rent here in a nice house is only 200 dollars a month so..... I am tempted to stay here and join the ranks of the amazingly happy, tan, and healthy dive fanatics. I mean I already teach backpacking, canoeing, rafting, sea kayaking, and snowboarding; why not add SCUBA? But alas I must get back to cooking, chilling, and overall enjoying this lovely island.