153 Days

So the two tourists from Brazil/Hong Kong wanted to dive at the B-17 bomber again because the batteries to their underwater camera had gotten flat from being so snap happy at the submarine dive that we did the day before. So they wanted to go there again to take some shots. With Vanessa's husband being a pilot he was very adamant on taking some photo's sitting in the cockpit :p i informed Jamie (my new friend from England) that we were going to be diving there and he hadn't done it before so he was quite keen on coming.

On arrival at the dive site we saw some kids (4-9years old) playing in the sea - everyday life for them. Singing songs at the top of their lungs. it was very cute! I experienced one of the most amazing feelings ever... they started singing - Die Antwoord, Enter The Ninja! just such an amazing feeling that i could be so far away from home and kids that live in homes made out of bamboo and leaves were singing a song from my home country! I'm Proudly South African i tell you!

We entered the calm sea and made our way down to the plane wreck at a depth of 14m. diving at this site the day before i wasn't really keen on doing it again to be completely honest but it turned out extremely fun! i showed Jamie all the cool things there were to see in about 20 minutes and had about 40 minutes of dive time left. this is where all the fun began. Jamie and i took of our fins off and proceeded to have a running race (at a super slow pace) along the wing of a World War II Bomber plane! now who can tell me they have ever done that or will ever do that in their life time?? ticked off on my bucket list - YAY =D

Jamie took off his fins and asked me to hold them for him while he was climbing into the seat of the pilot/co-pilot. when he wasn't looking (trying to squeeze into the seat) i quickly swam away from him to Sam. lol this was extremely funny! but by the time i had reached Sam, Sam pulled my mask off my face and i couldn't see a thing, everything becomes blurred :p Jamie eventually made his way to me and stole my fins and took his fins back! lol... At this point you cant really do anything - you're a sitting duck in the water (o_0) you cant swim to them, cant see them, you just have to wait for them to finish laughing at you and decide to bring your gear back... this carried on for another 20 minutes before we realised that our air supply was really low from our heavy breathing and frantic swimming in the water.

After Jamie and i made our way out the water -Sam staying under with the tourists. we took our gear off and got back into the sea and played ball with a few of the local children. it was so much fun! even though we cant understand what each other's saying we still find the same things funny and there is not much talking needed! it was awesome!

Locals in the sea

An awesome shell i found