This morning was the beginning of diving with Karl. Karl comes down from Amsterdam to Curaçao for three months to take people diving. Karl does a good job and he wanted to work on my breathing and buoyancy. Yesterday they had me on a regular tank and Peter said it was a 45 minute dive but it felt shorter. The second dive the gave me a bigger tank and Jason said based on his computer it was a solid 45 minute dive. This morning I got a full hour dive with Karl and still had another ten minutes he said before hitting the limit.
I didn’t get to use my camera during my dive for my second dive today either. Karl invited another person to come along who was having trouble with her ear equalizing. They seemed to know each other very well but he only introduced her by name. She had some ear pain still so we didn’t go past 50 feet deep. It was a fairly good dive, it went 53 minutes, I still had 500 left but at that I have a hard time staying down even with extra weight. I’m not sure if I like the bigger tank. I need extra weight to keep me down as it becomes more buoyant but I need to air up my BCD when I first get in the water or I sink like a rock. I think I do fine at the lower weight with the regular tank. My dives always get longer as I do more. It would be nice if I was able to get more time to dive on a regular basis. I’m not opposed to being sponsored to live in a warmer environment with good diving if anyone feels like they have too much money. It could be expensive, Emily may wish to join me.
Tomorrow we should have some pictures, we will be venturing out to see some more sights. We will be going to some caves that are close to the capital so we may go into it or we may hit some beaches for snorkeling that are down that way.
I also signed up to do the night snorkel with Karl and a couple other people. Emily will snorkel. It’s probably going to be cold. The water here is a little cooler than the other places we’ve been. Maybe in the dark we will see some more activity with our flashlights. Hopefully no sea urchin incidents.
I believe Monday we will be going to a beach to for my morning dive that may have turtles. Karl said the fishermen clean their catch and put the waste into the water and the turtles come for a free meal. Better to see things that isn’t because of people doing something to change their behavior but it may be the only way to see a turtle here.
We are finding that a lot of the people who say the snorkeling and diving are great here haven’t been to very many other places. People seem to pick a place and stick with it. Emily and I have enjoyed being here but we also enjoy seeing other places and I suspect will keep trying to find a place that combines all of the things we enjoy doing on vacation the way we enjoy doing them. It’s neat to see all the different places and each has good things about them. Everyone has to decide what they like when it comes to vacations and places to visit.
Hopefully the lack of pictures hasn’t discouraged our readers. I will be sure to post some tomorrow!!
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