Hi. We finished April Camp at the other building and we're happy to be back at our own apartment and old school.

 

We went diving on a 2 day liveaboard dive cruise in the Similan Islands off the Thai / Burma border about 35 miles. It's apparently one of the top 10 dive sites in the world. It was amazing. The boat was fantastic, the service outstanding, and the diving magical. We saw leopard sharks, octupuses, lobsters, crabs, eels, and countless other fish coloured every shade imaginable. It is a completely different world down there, far more beautiful than anything I've seen above the surface. We went on a night dive with flashlights, which, I'll admit, was scary.

 

Our last dive we were lucky enough to see a 1 meter turtle swim past us. Then it turned around and came back at us. It was getting more and more aggressive, and wouldn't go away. We surfaced, waiting for the boat to pick us up, when it started attacking us, though not getting any bites in. Our dive master said it was hungry and told us not to make any arm movements that would make us look like fish (though it would have taken a really stupid turtle to mistake us for fish). Finally, our dive master scared it away by blowing bubbles at it and thrusting his head at the turtle. When the turtle came at us for a bite/dive, Susanne and Alana pushed me in between them and the turtle. I was their human shield, wondering how I was going to fend off this beast while getting choked from behind by two panicky girls, one of which was running low on air. It really was an experience we won't ever forget.

 

As I'm sitting here typing at 10:50 pm, it is 31 Celsius but with the humidity it feels like 44 Celsius. I am dripping in sweat.

 

We bought our tickets to Winnipeg for July 15th, and will soon buy our tickets to Germany on Aug.2 or 3. We'd love to hear from you. Check out our new photos in the album!!

 

Warren and Susanne