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A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Tue 20 Apr 2010 05:06
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SUNDAY 18 th April
2010
Rangiroa
07.00hrs All up and about, and all
went for a swim, wonderfull,
08.30hrs A & S set off in the car for
Mass, the Church being 12 km away,
when we arrieved, things looked mighty settled, and
on entering the church , we find Mass comming to an end,
Oh feck, ( not Aileens comment,) We were
obviously given the wrong times,, damm that, but we did get some of the
singing,
and had a bit of a sign language chat with the
Priest when most people were gone.
10.00hrs, Stephen and Donal went to the Dive
center for our introductory session. " Top Dive " a well organised outfit
with centers
in lots of the " French Polynesian Islands".
Our Diving Instrustor was a French Lassy called " Kathy "........a fine lassy
too.
The lesson took about 2 hours in total, half of
which was the do's and dont's before we ever got near water.
It was great fun, and Fats really enjoyed the whole
thing, even though the weight's kept falling down his body ( because he has no
waist )
and the lovely Instructor spent much time pulling
up his things,
We saw 4 sharks, 1 sea ray, lots of butterfly fish
( mainly bright yellow with blue stripes )
Click your fingers and the butterfly fish will come
and swim all round you. even nibble the hairs off your legs,
Lots of Morea eel's and thousands of other fish
types, just magic.
The real laugh was at the end of the session,
trying to get Fat's back on board the big rib.
A Libhert Crane would have been handy, but as that
was not available, it was all hands on deck , and we succeeded
through sheer perseverance .
It Was a great morning, and Aileen came with us to
observe the dive.and also enjoyed the thing.
Later the Skipper signed up to do a diving
course, ( Padi ) so at 14.30 hrs off again for more
diving.. this could become addictive.
The course consists of 6 dives over three days,
plus exham's , Chrips,
17.00hrs Skipper returned to A Lady, totally
exhausted, and only just in time to get ready to go to " Voyaguer " for drinks
& dinner
plenty of wine and a lamb chop dinner went down
just perfectly, and capped off with some fine scotch Whiskey,before
discovering
that " Ronja" never tied their rib to " Voyaguer "
properly and it dissapeared in a very strong breeze into the middle of the
night.
Fats and Jan Ruud ( owner of Ronja and rib ) spent
an hour looking for it , but failed to find her, too dark and
windy.
Ohhhh my god, they are expensive bits of kit, not
to mention the sheer inconvience of not having the rib for going and comming to
shore.
We all eventually retired to the bunks and
ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZ
Thats it for today,
Signed :- Stephen
Hyde, ( skipper )
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