London House Condominiums
Travel Blogs from Seven Mile Beach
Dive Day 1 - A Rough Start
... dripping into your eyes is definitely not pleasant. On the walk to the store we saw 2 gray birds - boobies! (HA!!!).
After the store I came back to the room and sought refuge in our cool, air-conditioned room. That, and I felt like I was getting sunburned (which of course I was). I ended up crashing out for a few blissful hours. Sun + fear + diving + crazy humid heat will really take it out of you.
Woke up, got situated for bike riding, and then ...
Cayman Islands
... me again to say the word "tea" in Hungarian. He kept telling me I was saying it incorrectly and he kept laughing. I personally think he just liked to see me saying the sound "teh" over and over like a parrot. We talked for a while longer until he had to go back to work. I was still worried about him, but knew there was nothing I could do about it at that point.
I had sent my friend Garrett a message before I left Canada, telling him when I would be in port. Garrett worked ...
Day at Sea/Formal Night...
... and saw that photos from the night before had been added to the wall display. I spent a bit of time looking for the pictures from our dinner table.
There was a nice picture of me from the dinner table, and so I bought that. I was beginning to feel a little strange buying all of these pictures of myself. I also knew, however, that there were so few pictures of me anywhere, that it wasn't really a bad thing. When asked if I wanted to order the poster size of ...
And You Thought Only A Hoover Sucks ...
... someone in another group ends up with a huge hickey on his back.
We are allow to touch and hold the stingrays although holding them takes a few tries for some of the people from Texas. For feeding, we are given pieces of squid and told to hold them like an ice cream under the water. I now know what a piece of dust feels like when a Hoover passes over it. It really sucks!
Back on board the boat ...
Qualified.. hurrah!!
... just swimming but we have to do various skills tests on the ocean floor, today it was removing our mask, which doesn't sound too bad on the face of it, but when you're out in the open water it feels weird and quite scary. Another test is to manually inflate your BCD whilst below, so again taking out your regulator (breather) and blowing up a tube... anyway we did it ...
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Amenities
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Swimming pool
- Kitchenette
- Free parking