Sorry I missed the update yesterday. Diving sort of knackered us out, and I really couldn't be bothered to write at all. Just wanted to go to bed.
Nothing much really happened yesterday though. We went on our first dice in the sea which stressed me out a little bit. One, the sea is a very open space and I could easily drift off, especially as there was a lot of current underneath as well. Which I didn't like at all. And secondly, we had to fill our masks underwater (which in the swimming pool is fine but salt water...) which I had a panic attack about and ended up having to go to the surface and calm myself down... Didn't like that at all. Felt like I was going to drown. Today we took off our masks in the sea, which was a lot easier. Keeping it on and filling it, it felt a bit claustrophobic and even though I had the thing in my mouth to breathe, felt like I couldn't breath and I was trapped underneath the water.
The evening was again, the same. We went to the beach promenade thing and went to all the little hippy market stalls (where Vero bought every piece of jewellery with a pretty shiny stone possible) and then we got ice cream and horchata and sat on the beach and chilled a bit listening to the waves. We drew a 'circle of protection' to sit in on the sand - well really I was bored and dragged my foot around in a massive circle where we were sitting. But it clearly worked as no one stepped in it and kept clearly away.
Today was a bit better in terms of diving. We were up much earlier though to do two dives - we went out on the boat this time, which I wasn't all that keen on being a bit sea-sick but it wasn't too bad! The first dive we did at La Pared Negra (that was really pretty and on top of the cliff there was the best house ever that I want to buy and live in now, so cool!). We spent an hour down there, and it was a lot better than being in the sea yesterday. Only there was more rocks and I was worried about hitting them all the time. The second dive we moved a bit away because lots of people had gathered to Cabo San ... Something... Can't remember the names exactly. There's quite a few Cabo San ... in Javea! [it was Cabo San Martin] We changed bottles and went back in (throwing ourselves backwards off the boat which was scary). It was a lot better there, and we got down to about 18m, and saw loads of fish, starfish, octupuses (errrr I'm scared of them so I wasn't that interested!) and barricuda as well! Vero saw a lobster but I didn't. However she spent most of her time not paying attention, floating around and trying to touch fish. It was good though. But I'm glad to say that its over now. And we have our certificate and are officially Open Water Divers and can go diving whenever we want! I think I'll stick to lakes though. The sea scares me a little.
Anyway, in Valencia now. Super tired and off to bed. Not had the best of days, in a weird mood and exhausted and stressed from the dives in the sea. Missing Carl lots too. Going to try and get a good nights sleep!! Sorry about the super long 'essay' post. Needed to catch up from not posting yesterday!
Un beso a todos x
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