The dives are easy shoe dives here. Except that Angela and I have forgotten basically everything you need to know to dive on your own.
Being spoiled by Western dive shops where they do everything but breathe for you has left us soft and forgetful. When the dive master asked me to put my gear together I blanked, tried to "figure it out" and ended up doing it backwards, low, wrong and wrong. Angela was a lot closer, but when he asked us to do our buddy checks we just looked at each other. "Um... buckles? Air? Done? ..."
We managed to survive, but it was a heavy, long walk both in and out of the water. Putting on fins in the water is much harder than our dive master made it look. Easily five minutes of struggle.
Highlights from the dive part of the diving...
* Angela saw a big sea worm
* Some neat jelly fish
* An Octopus! Our first one that we've seen on a dive. Our dive master poked him out and he "swam" a bit
* Lots of small eels
* A very colorful nudibranch!
* Lion fish
* Many stone fish (if these hadn't been pointed out, we never would've seen them. They don't even move when you provoke them. Come to think of it... I'm not sure all of them were fish...)
* Gigantic beautiful green cabbage color. Twelve feet wide... enormous big head of cabbage!
* Very pretty school of baby fish. At first I though they were bubbles they were so small
Bonus: free Turkish coffee included before and after the dive. Delicious!
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