Blinky only week two and already I answer to my new name :-)

Blinky it says on my new red t- shirt just below the logo of the dive center. The name sounds already familiar. It´s funny how quick you adapt, the name, setting up the kit, dive, washing the kit. I may not be as fast as Jeff and Ned the other Divemaster Interns but I may get there one day 

Vince and Daisy both finished his PADI instructor development course so the new instructors are celebrating and are with us this week, Melissa has a cold and can´t dive so she controls us from the shop.
Monday we take the boat (Jamie or Percy is the captain) and go to Poco Naufragio and do a deep dive and a drift dive. Deep, big rays!  One lays over Ned and covers him, then take a taste of my hair. They are used to be fed, hence their behavior. They are big and cool. I and Cloe do our advanced class. Her father Jeff, Ned, Vince and Tinman are also diving. A good day!

Tuesday Las Eras I do the fish identify… and I am a PADI Advanced Open Water diver! Cool colors and lot of fish, schools of fish (a new word I learned). I like the trumpet fish, the garden eels, the sharp nosed puffer, brand tail puffer and I can go  on and on. I like it!

Wednesday a day off, Jeff and me take the bus to Las Americas. It´s surf time(!)… for Jeff who takes wave after wave. I don´t have the confident this day I try a couple of time but to many people and one of them grumpy. It ends with me more laying on the board looking up at Teide. Ahh… but the sun is shining and Teide is beautiful. We finish of with a Mojito, a good day! Though we have to wait for the bus in 1 ½ hour.

Thursday El Puertito, where the saint Carmen watch over us while we dive with the turtles! The whole family from Switzerland are with us Cloe and her father, mother are diving with us and the sister snorkeling. The turtles they are cool it´s like being in space they just come floating towards us ( have I said that before?). We take a coffee afterwards, or I take cortado leche y leche. They are good, you should try! Nice dive and nice people.

Friday Abades, got my wetsuit, looking sharp… And it´s open in the front which is good it turns out because you (read I) tend to need to use the men’s room after a dive. In Abades it´s between the fishing boats… The dives are very nice, schools of fish and very good visability. The Swiss are doing there last dive with us. They invite us to eat calamares afterwards.

The evening Jeff comes over to Los Abrigos where I´m staying and we do the town… It´s a small village. But Jeff wins in pool and we get a free shot.

I also been with the guys and Melissa to San Blas country kitchen, very English. One of the waitresses have a tattoo with two eyes with mom and dad watching written under. Hmm… She´s seems like a nice girl though. You can play pool and dart there, I´m rubbish at both but it´s fun.

A nice week with many good days, and the boat still there…

Blinky