Thursday 22 May 2008

More Coron wrecks and Barracuda Lake

Another great day of diving. Feeling very spoilt and burnt! We're getting good at squeezing through wrecks! On our boat today were some gorgeous buffed German blokes! It would be easy to start taking these amazing sights for granted we've seen so many.

Barracuda Lake was incredible. It's a magnificent place reached only by water and then clambering over jagged rocks with all our heavy scuba gear on. Then, in the water it's like being on another planet. Not much life on the bottom except hundreds of shrimps and a thick sludge. It was a very strange experience swimming without weights or suits and going from hot to cold, saline to fresh and then going in to a zero visibility area in the middle.

It's funny meeting people on their travels. There are not just 18 year old school leavers doing what we're doing in this part of the world it seems. We've met bankers, web geeks, media and advertising execs, chefs, millionaire Americans and Brits (with their much younger Asian spouses) etc. Some are surprisingly candid about their lives, madnesses, weaknesses, desires, hopes and intentions. It's good to do the same some times, let one's guard down a bit and get to know people in this transient period, though I know I'd have a totally different experience if I wasn't part of a couple. I wonder how people perceive us. It amuses me. We're come across some really odd couples, that's for sure. I don't think I ever take Ric for granted but we are in each other's space so much!

It's raining hard outside now and we're starving. Diving really makes you hungry and tired.
Horse riding tomorrow. The horses, or ponies, are dinky apparently. Should be interesting.

Also now trying to find a way to get to Thailand. Might have to spend a day in a Manila airport...we always do things a day too late!

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