31 Jan

So we rose to the entire bakery being on offer at our hotel and after a quick brekky we scouted around and found ANOTHER hotel to our liking, this one located closer to the beach. Talk about accommodation sluts. We packed up and hiked down the beach, and after dumping our stuff got a serious bead on which required a swim in the sea and an early açai. Then it was 1130am and time for R, N and Jo to go for their dive. Out we go on the boat 15mins away from the island and as we get wetsuited up, Nadine discovers that her wet suit zip is broken and can't do it up any which way she tries. So after a wail of despair and frustration wet suits were swopped around. Happy once more we put on our weight belts and BCs and jumped in. Everyone started to descend and as Nadine went to take a nice deep breath of sweet oxygen, none came out, and consequently erupted from the water screaming that her tank was not even fricking open yet! So hastily the guy manning the boat opened it for her and once again she was off. However the Evil Sea Gods were not yet done with her, and she suffered for 15mins at the hands of excruciating non ear equalising until she could properly descend. Hanging onto the anchor rope she inched her way down and every few metres finally received a pop.
The dive itself was not amazing but fish life was generally abundant and Riki even managed to see a giant rockfish. A highlight was a black fish with iridescent blue sparkles on it.
After 45 minutes we surfaced (Nadine with a bleeding nose) and jumped back onto the boat and headed back to shore after Nadine decided not to risk being smited by the Evil Sea Gods again on dive 2. The rest of the afternoon was spent on the beach working on our tans and swimming and enjoying an afternoon açai (as Jo put it-we need to go to AA - Açai Anonymous). Now we are heading to the supermarket to utilise our good friend Spu who has been a very worthy and faithful companion, tonight is lime caipirinhas... Last night of January - Time is flying far too fast for our liking. Nadine is working on Riki trying to accept Ryan's Brazil Challenge - its all about the public place...