My last week - heralded in by more tropical downpours, thunder, lightning, and clear skies and sun in the afternoon. 6 weeks has flown by as usual, except this time I think it will be more difficult to return to "normal" life. Having adjusted to the heat and humidity, I'm certainly going to be cold. I have resisted the urge to check the weather at home until now, to find it is expected to reach the dizzy heights of 4 degrees centigrade tomorrow in England. 4 degrees. That is about 32 degrees colder than I am now. Nothing in comparison to one Canadian woman I met,from Winnipeg, where the temperature, with wind chill added, was an ear bitingly cold minus 40 degrees centigrade. On arrival in Kenya, we calculated that she had undergone an 80 degree centigrade change in temperature. Jeepers.
Dived again today, where the visibility was a disappointing 15 or so metres, due to the sediment having been whipped up by the storms. It was still a nice way to pass the time however, if it had not been for The Selfish Diver. There is always one. This particular Selfish Diver was having difficulty with the concept of the ocean being a very big place indeed, and there was no need to be in my little bit of it. If you thought it was impossible to barge past someone in the middle of the sea, when there are only 5 of you in a very big space - well, this chap would have dispelled that notion fairly swiftly. " Look " I gestured, doing the sign for a lionfish - having managed to catch the eye of most of my fellow group, imagine my surprise when I was firmly pushed out of the way so he could take a (bad) photograph of it, startling it so that it swam off fairly sharpish. "Look" I gestured again, "big octopus under this rock", as he charged past me once again, nearly knocking my breathing gear out of my mouth with his flappy fins, to lift the rock up, sending the poor octopus white with fear, under the next big rock, before anyone else had a chance to see it. First rule of diving - DON'T TOUCH. Leave everything as it was, do not upset the animals. That includes the other divers. Grr. And, Selfish Diver, do not go in the opposite direction to everyone else with your wretched camera, when the visibility is poor, and we all have to go back and find you, against the current, wasting our precious air in the process. There are some gestures, when demonstrated underwater, or above it for that matter,that are perfectly clear, and the rest of the group was communicating their feelings perfectly adequately by the end of the second dive....
Just needed to get that little rant out of my system - back to calmness and serenity now. Phew.
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