I am friggn happy in Thailand now. I made it to Koh Toa and just had my first open water dive. Now I understand why everybody is happy here. It was amazing!! We did our shallow water/confined skills training today with parrot fish swimming between our legs. The coral reef projects are thriving, and another dive group in our boat even saw a turtle. Being underwater with fish that are not afraid of you is so foreign and so cool!!
This is all despite the fact that it's the rainy season in this part of Thailand. It's also much cooler here on the island and you can sleep with the windows open comfortably. It's rained both days I've been here and the forecast says it will continue. But I don't care. I will be underwater, swimming with the beautiful, cute, curious fishes. I wish I had a waterproof camera. There are promises of pictures on the last day of our certification class.
The dive instructors are all very nice, very knowledgeable, very happy people. There's a comraderie that is contagious. They joke a lot. They laugh a lot. They make no money, and are happy about it because they are diving every day in paradise. A few of us students ate dinner with 4 instructors tonight and learned a lot about the diving lifestyle. Several of them had real careers, and advanced degrees before they decided to take the plunge and just teach diving. Now the travel around the world from peak season to peak season, saving up just enough to travel when they want to. I can see the attraction. But I also notice there are no old dive instructors . . .
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