…And the eagle has landed!

Ahhh finally! Sunshine! Warmth!
I arrived in Lumut just north of Kuala Lumpur 5 days ago. The first day I didn’t do much except for eating rice and chicken for breakfast, lunch and dinner (not by choice I have to say!!!!), looking at the sun, talking and warming up my frozen bones!!! Oh that’s not true there was some excitement: They called from the boat and asked us to get the O2 ready because they had a diver with suspected DCS. Luckily it was false alarm…
The second day they asked if I wanted to go for a dive and of course I wanted so we left around 9 am. Jamie had two open water students so I went with him. The visibility was 30-50 cm, very interesting and after Jamie had done the navigation with the first student he signalled me to take one student and he would take the other and then he disappeared. Unfortunately I misunderstood him so I was a bit confused. Did he get lost or what?!! So I finished the navigation with my diver and then we swam around a bit and surfaced. It was very uhm interesting to swim around at a new dive site with zero viz and an open water student but we managed without getting lost (kind of impossible when the boat picks you up where-ever you surface, but still!), loosing each other or bumping into rocks. For the second dive we went to another site but the viz was still the same. This time we split the divers between us from the beginning and I finished the skills and swam around again with one hand on the bottom and a very good eye on my student so I didn’t loose him. We saw not a single fish, crab or other living creature on any of the dives (except for when we bumped into the divers doing the tec course) but I really enjoyed being in the water again after 5 months:-)!
The last few days it has been very quiet but this morning it was busy busy! 25+ divers went diving but they were all certified or doing courses with other instructors so I’m not working. Tomorrow I’ll guide some of them, yeah back in the water:-)! We are going to some sites that should be very nice and with okay visibility.
Monday some of us go back to Perhentian Island and I’m looking forward to that. The only thing there really is to like about Lumut are Tesco and the hot showers…
So come Monday no more shoes, no more cars, no more worries:-D