Just wanted to share with you all that I have booked to go to the red sea to do my PADI diving qualification in December!![sm=1syellow1.gif]
I am very excited!![sm=jump1.gif]
Has anyone been????[sm=nature-smiley-008.gif]
[sm=dance.gif]I so needed to do something to pick myself upand push myself through the rest of thisso far pretty tricky year! Think I may have found that something, despite having to beg, borrow, (but not yet steal!!!!) to do it!!!!!!:D
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Enjoy! (I haven't been to the Red Sea.)
When you've got that, I just noticed today that there are inland diving clubs in the SW. For example, there's a contact number in my town.
No, I don't mean that they dive inland!!!! :DYou know what I mean ... they must get together to dive together around here?
V
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Oh you will love it! I wish I was going! I have not been to the Red Sea, but my brother has and so have quite a few of my friends. It is one of the best areas in the world to learn to dive, and so much to see too.
I used to do a lot of diving before I had children. It is the most wonderful sport. It is such a different world down there. I have to make do with snorkelling at the moment, which I don't mind too much. I will go back to it, in the not too distant future.
We went to a wonderful place in Mexico earlier this year called Xel Ha, it is a natural lagoon, and it was fantastic to take the children snorkelling there. We saw Barracuda, Rays, Eels,Turtlesand all kinds of fish. There was a huge Jew fish that lived under the pontoon, he was about 1.5 metres long, and our guide took us to see him. At first you couldn't see anything in the gloom, but when your eyes adjusted.....first you saw his teeth....and then the rest of him. He was a whopper! We had a fabulous time snorkelling off the beach at the hotel too, so many fish.
You will have a wonderful time. I am sure it is a sport that will have you hooked. You will soooooo forget the world above when you are down there. Enjoy!
With love
Jacquie [sm=love-smiley-009.gif]
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Cool idea V![sm=hug.gif]
You're a water man - you should do it too at some point!
We could meet up and go for a 'sunday afternoon dive!!!!!':D:D:D
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I intend to, Jaime. While wetsuits help, it'd be learning in England so bbbrrrrr, in warmer weather?
Question to Jacquie or all snorkellers - I've had a problem for a year or two. And wouldn't it effect scuba too? I used to be able to go as deep as my breath could hold, and that's about 3 minutes. But now at a real measly depth of about 8-10 feet only, the pressure quickly gives me a splitting headache in the side of my temple. It might last the rest of the day. Experienced this? And how the heck to overcome it?
V