I’ve had a fantastic weekend diving down in Cornwall out of Porthkerris. A bit of an epic seven hour journey to get there but worth it for the four dives that I had.
The highlight of the weekend has to be when we returned from the last dive spotting a basking shark in the bay. All of us madly were putting our fins, masks and snorkels back on hoping to get in the water with it. I was not disappointed and managed to see it gliding through the water. The size of it was incredibly impressing.
Well I’ve had a busy couple of weeks. First I was off down to the Isles of Scilly for a great week of diving in some gloriously sunny weather. I was lucky enough to get in 12 dives, a couple of very good wall dives, several on wrecks including the last to go down in 1997. Managed a great swim through underneath the bow of this ship. We even managed a couple of dives with
Last week I was out in Amsterdam with work but managed to take in a few of the sights and sounds and avoiding getting run down by a cyclist. I managed to take in the a canal boat tour and dinner, a visit to a windmill, Van Gogh museum which currently has on an exhbition of Caravaggio and Rembrant painting, the Rijksmuseum home to more painting by Rembrant indcluding the Nightwatch, Rembrant’s House, Anne Frank’s House, the Foam Gallery, Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography and De Oude Kerk which had on the World Press Photographer 2006 exhibition. On top of this I managed to wander round the city passing through the red light district.
Amsterdam is a very different city to other’s I have visited. It’s canal’s and flat terrain have created a very varied city with a compact centre that is small and easily crossed on foot and easily enough that people are willing to cycle rather than having to own a car. I can imagine that Amsterdam is a very difficult city to learn Dutch in as the Dutch speak English very well. I came across several conversations as I wandered around where a foreigner was speaking to someone Dutch in English.
Had a interesting time taking in my surroundings and was pleasently surprised to someone to explore a couple of the sights and sounds with. Strangely enough an Australian lass working near Munich on a placement as part of her studies.
I’ve got my Sports Diver signed off by Andy Hodge. All I need now is to get it stamped. Hooray
Had a sad feeling going to what could be my last Romsey Sub-Aqua Club Annual Dinner. I’ve got the last part of my BSAC Sports Diver training signed off. All I need to do now is track down Andy Hodge to sign it off as diving officer.
I also narrowly missed out on our Sports Diver of the year getting mentioned for being club secretary for two years and that I am now leaving them all.