Island day 3 - Start of diving

It's raining a bit during breakfast. The manager is relaxed, wearing a linen shirt and barefoot in front of the restaurant 😅 The jogger is running her 400m route through the facility like the last two days 🔄 We wonder why there are no female service staff working in the restaurant... we have only seen them at the bar and in the spa. Today, the blue peacock is sitting on a coffee table in the lobby 😅

Our diving course starts at half past 10, together with 2 Swiss boys. We spend about 2.5 hours in/around the pool - first in shallow water, then in deeper water - and learn some theory and practice. 🤿 At first, it feels a bit unusual to breathe underwater, but we quickly get used to it🙂

During lunch break, we realize once again that our room has the best location/view in this category 😊💪😎

After a lunch break, we continue. We practice jumping into the water and how to react to problems underwater. It is a challenge to be without a mask or with a flipped bottle, but we manage 🙂💪😊 We learn how to breathe with someone else's bottle and how to clear water from the mask 👌

We have the late afternoon to ourselves and relax on the beach in the sun until it disappears behind the palm trees. Before dinner, there is a diving video tutorial. Tomorrow, we start at 8:15 am😱😳😆🤣 but only until noon.

We check the hotel app to see what's happening in the next few days. Maybe we'll explore the island on foot as well 😉

What Benny is looking forward to: reading Melly's handwritten blog at the end of the trip. 😊 But for now, we continue to enjoy paradise 🤗

At dinner, the waiters are more organized today and we catch a service staff who even speaks some German 😅 Our choice for dinner is amazing (except for Melly's dessert 😆 Indian: carot-cardamom-raisin ... warm 🤣). We play a short game and then off to bed.

Tomorrow, it's time for the Open Water dive. 🤿

Stay tuned 🏖🏝