Erics OW & Singapore

Erics OW & Singapore

Eric has started to be settled in and is also a certified diver now! He had one day dedicated to working on the theory, the second one consisted of practicing in skills in the pool and the third day he went on the boat to finish off his course. The next day I guided him at Koh Bida.

I’ve been diving there plenty of times this season but never have I ever seen this much sharks around as it was this thursday.

In the beginning of the dive we went shallow and I told everyone to really prepare for the sharks. Five minutes into the dive 5 sharks was showing up and cruised around us, It’s amazing how they look. The movie soundtrack from JAWS went through my mind at that point.

For the third dive we went to Hin Bida, famous for leopard sharks that use to sleep in the shallow waters behind the little rock that pointing up in the middle of the sea. We went very shallow the whole dive to look for the shark and ten minutes into the dive I saw Mat calling me, he’d found one. Lucky for my brother on his first fun dive to actually see both black tip reef shark and leopard shark. We also saw octopus and cuttlefish along with other beautiful creatures in the ocean.

I’m in Singapore at the moment for my Visa run and Carli let me stay at her place which is super nice of her. The flight and getting to Carli was super easy and everything went so smoothly. She took me to her favourite food place where we had very good food. Carli needed to go to work and then I went to the Gardens by the bay, really worth a visit. The layout and the big park was full with fountains and flowers. In the evening they had a light show in the artificial trees. It was  beautiful. The trees were switching colors to the music and the show lasted 30 minutes.

Carli was cooking the next day and invited Lynette for a dinner. She was cooking really good chicken satay with a greek salad and own baked bread. We talked about what I wanted to do after my season in Thailand and Lynette actually gave me some good advice and contacts that I could try to contact.