The ocean is terrifying

26.02.2015

Well, in the morning we headed on down to the dive shop, where they brought us to the boat at 6:20 a.m. and we took off for the ocean, far away from land.

After the night before, I was not feeling social at all, also everyone except Eddie, Luke and Stuart were 10 years younger than me and I was not interested in making friends for two days with them. I don't like group trips in general and being stuck on a boat for three days with these people was not looking good. <br style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> After breakfast we watched all the safety things and then went out to the water. It was OK for me because I went with one other German snorkeler. We were the only two not diving.

I thought the German knew what he was doing, so I followed him out. He went way too far and soon we were in some really really shallow coral. We couldn't put our feet down without touching it. Not good. Our dive master came out on the boat to yell at us and get back to the boat.

There were lots of fish, and I'm irrationally afraid of them. So, I knew this whole trip was gonna be really a challenge for me. But, I wanted to try anyway.

Everywhere you looked there were big fish and little fish all different colours and beautiful coral etc etc etc. It was surprising to me that ANY of this existed, thinking about all the tons of crap we throw into the ocean on a scale like never before. So, that part is good, I just feel that I don't have the need to go and see it anymore.

On the second snorkel, I went by myself, I couldn't find my snorkel buddy. I was doing alright, sort of dealing on my own. When suddenly, I looked down on the bottom and there are like, FOUR small reef sharks. I stopped dead in my tracks and high tailed it back to the boat. Done.

The next time, I went with my German friend again, and we saw a giant turtle. We kind of followed the route the divers took, it was the best one.

After all the diving there was a feast of curry chicken and clearskin wine. I slept on the deck of the boat under the shimmering starry sky.

On the boat