Wednesday 22 August 2012

Dive dive dive!


I'm back from holiday with a small piece of card and a new hobby - I've passed my PADI Open Water Scuba course and am now certified! Yaaaaay! This means I now know the vital importance of recording Actual Bottom Time ... which, believe me, I am keen on racking up some more of ;-)

We did our PADI course with Cydive in Paphos. The island of Cyprus is also blessed with lots of this:

The underground "Tombs of the Kings"
and this:

(Note that the halo exists in pre-Christian art - that's Apollo on the right there)
But at 34 degrees centigrade all we really wanted to do, when we weren't in the sea, was this:


:-)

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Congratulations!

Janine Ashbless said...

Thank you Matt!
I was such a girly swot in the exams, as the others did not hesitate to point out!

Jo said...

Your life is excellent :)

Janine Ashbless said...

It is. I've done nothing to deserve it either ... It feels like I'm the subject of some cosmic wind-up.

It does mean I spend my life waiting for the other shoe to drop!

Jennifer Denys said...

Hey, welcome back - and congratulations!