A Qualified Something For The First Time Ever

Despite not pumping my body full of goon and snake bite the previous night I was still sick as a dog. Apparently this time it was because I had sausage for breakfast. I wouldn't mind but they weren't even good sausages. The sausages I deposited into the Bligh Waters were the worst bangers I've ever eaten in my life. But anyway, I still got a couple of dives in but had to abandon the third dive in favour of alternating between curling up in a small ball, whimpering quietly and hanging my head over the side.

The Dive Boat

Jiorji And A Fat, Red Me

The Bligh Waters are a stunning place to learn to dive though, we saw some of the coolest things. After a day off we went back out to finish my course then I went out on my certified dive. Over the course of all my dives we saw Murray eels, heaps of fish and coral, barracudas, a white tipped reef shark, a sea snake and a couple of lion fish. Two years in the land of Things That Can Poison You Or Tear You Limb From Limb taught me nothing, I still followed the sea snake for a photo op. I think they're pretty venomous, they just don't care enough to bite you is all. Lion fish are poisonous too. I'm not sure if you have to actually suck them in order to die or if they just have to take a fancy to your extremities. I'll look it up and let you know.

Sea Snake

Lion Fish

I fucking love diving so much, seriously, its amazing. It's a whole different world, I can't wait to start diving in other parts of the world and to do some more courses. It ain't cheap but hey, gotta have a hobby apart from travel and what two hobbies go better together than travel and diving? Apart from drinking and shagging but that aside.

Anyway, its official. Finally I'm a diver.

And not just of the muff variety.

Diver!

A Qualified Something For The First Time Ever

Nananu-I-Ra, Fiji