Dive, dive, dive!

Before we headed further south to saigon we did a spot of diving in the sea off Nha Trang. It was our first dive for about 18 months and so we had a little refresher dive first. We dove down about 5 meters and started to practice some basics like clearing your mask of water. At this point Sam got the fear about it all and had to go to the surface with the instructor and get some counselling. I gallantly agreed to carry on the dive with the other instructor in the interests of er, science. On returning to the surface 3/4 of an hour later, I was pleased to discover Sam had relaxed a bit and over a tuna sandwich lunch on the boat, she bravely agreed to go on the second dive. She totally relaxed on the second dive and had a brilliant time I'm chuffed to say, she came very close to calling it a day, which would have been a great shame, but now her confidence is boosted by a good dive and once again we can be buddys under the sea (not on land!). We saw some amazing fish and the visability was about 15 meters which was fine. On my first dive I swam through a cave tunnel only about 3 meters long, but quite exciting, am not going to be doing any cave diving as am too claustrophobic, so don't worry Parents :) Anyhows, the cave was full of fish, a few hundred small ones, an absolutely incredible sight, it was just annoying that Sam was mid-counselling on the surface, to be honest though, swimming through a small cave was probably the last thing she would have wanted to do! On that lonesome dive, I saw my first Lion fish trying to hide itself behind a rock, poisonous spines on its back, but i mouthed 'Not the Face' and it went on its way! Also saw some Parrot fish , seen them before in Tobago, nice little critters. With Samantha in tow, we saw a small sea snake, absolutely superb! Saw some cuttle fish, there were four of them just hanging in the blue, in a diagonal formation for some reason. Also saw some lovely trumpet fish, about a meter long and a mooray eel, which the dive instructor preceded to torment by mocking it with his fist, luckily for him the eel was to busy being lazy in its rock house. All in all a very good couple of dives and nice to do after such a long time. Sam is now looking forward to the next dives, possibly in Cambodia, maybe not till Thailand, but shes all ready to be my undersea buddy :)