Dive Another Day

5 points to whoever guesses what Jonah and I did today. Those who guessed braided each other's hair are incorrect. You should have guessed that we went diving. I was too tired (lazy) to get up for the morning chorus today, so Jonah and I got up around 8:15, went to breakfast, and then went to the dive shop. I arranged for the rescue diver course. Apparently it will own my soul for the rest of my stay. I'm ok with that though. The guy I talked too had a distinct and familiar accent. So during the course of things I asked where he was from all ready to talk about my semester down in Tassie and how I dove in Cairns. Turns out he was English, not Aussie, so I didn't really have anything to say about that. Awkward...

Random Picture of Dive Shop Sign, sorry no good new pics today

Then we hopped on the trusty boat, and before we knew it were in the water. And there was this giant fish and I knew it was a shark! Except it was actually a tarpon which is definitely not a shark. So I kind of felt foolish after frantically signing shark. We did see a giant barracuda, which was chasing a small clown fish that had only one good fin. Then a different scuba diver came and captured the clown fish and went away to Australia with it! Right at the end I also found a really cool eel that we watched move around. I later commented to Jonah, "it was so cool! especially how we saw it moved exactly like it does on land!" He replied, "you mean flop around and die?" he has a point
Second Dive! The second dive was definitely another dive. We saw a turtle from afar, and there was another scorpion fish. There were lots of other fish (no tarpon (or sharks)) that I wont list because few people reading this actually know or care about the difference between an angelfish and a butterflyfish. At the end of the dive Jonah is the first one to the ladder, and promptly announces that he dropped his weight belt.

How we responded upon hearing about the belt

Foolish brother, sigh. I went down and grabbed it for him because I'm so nice and sweet. On the way up I saw a school of needlefish that no one else did, so I guess being a hero also has a payoff. I then spent much of the rest of the day reading the Rescue Diver Manual and being surrounded by Ruddy Turnstones as I did so. They're this absolutely fearless little plover. They literally did all but walk on me as I was reading. Anyway, Yay Work!