Before I even came to Saudi I had hoped to become dive certified. So Kelsey and I booked a trip to Sri Lanka to take care of that during a weeklong vacation! Yay certification and vacation at a beautiful beach in January! This was a really lovely week! Relaxing and entertaining! Our instructor was Sri Lankan and had tons of diving experience. He actually said lots of Sri Lankans don’t know how to swim because they have been taught from a young age that the water is dangerous with dangerous creatures living inside of it. Even fishermen who go out on boats that look like big rocking horses don’t know how to swim! And as far as the dangerous creatures, Kelsey and I both were actually stung by jellyfish in the water. Her experience was a bit more traumatic because it was right before our first dive and she was nervous already, then got stung by a jellyfish and the instructor jokingly convinced her she was sure to lose her arm. Our instructor was actually our cultural guide as well! He took us out for a local dinner. Delicious! The food was similar to Indian food, which I love so much! Yay! At dinner I think we got the local amount of spiciness, not tourist amount of spiciness and we were hot and sweating and couldn’t drink enough water, but it was delicious! He claimed it wasn’t hot at all to him.
During our dives we saw so many beautiful fish and coral! It was an amazing world underneath the water. We saw lobster, huge sea turtles, and schools of fish swimming together, tons of neon colors! Just all very exciting! We went to coral gardens and rock gardens with boulders the size of houses and a oil tanker ship wreck! The water was warm and clear. However I kept complaining how cold I was, guess I will not be diving where it is not tropical because it doesn’t get much warmer. We met a couple that dive regularly in Sweden, 4 degrees Celsius, brrrrr, no way!! I will have to share pictures from this trip later when I do a little computer recovery! Eeeks!
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