Diving

We woke up around 7:30, had breakfast and then decided to walk around the city for the morning. Ryan and I decided we'd try to see if we could go diving in the afternoon.

We first booked the Lost City (Cuidad Perdida) trek for tomorrow.

We walked to the beach and down the waterfront. Not very busy in the morning at all, hardly any shops open, not to many people around. Some Colombian tourists saw Ryan and wanted to get their picture taken with him. On the walk back, the dive shop was open, so we stopped and arranged to do a dive at 2:00 this afternoon.

We then walked more downtown along the main business street, tons and tons of people, all the little shops bustling, tons and tons of vendors on the streets selling stuff. Awesome! We stopped at a supermarket and bought some plastic bags for the trek.

We went for an average lunch at a small place down by the waterfront, then back to the room.

Ryan and I headed to the dive shop for our 2:00 dive time, got all fitted out with dive gear and then hopped in the little boat for the trip to the rocky point by the edge of the bay.

We started with a wreck, them swam around and saw a fair bit of coral and quite a few fish. The lionfish is an invasive fish here, so the government encourages divers to kill them. Our guide brought a speargun for that purpose. He managed to kill about 4 or 5 of them, including a huge one.

Ryan had trouble equalizing and with his buoancy, so he was constantly going up and down.

We finished the dive and when we came to the surface, Ryan has blood all over his face. He had burst a blood vessel in his nose because of the equalizing problem and it also have him a massive headache.

Back to the dive shop, we cleaned up all the gear, paid our bill and then headed back to the room to have a shower to get all the salt off. We picked up dad and went back to the dive shop to get our pictures, then headed to a restaurant recommended by our guide (Andreas), called Welcome.

Talk about a dive of a restaurant. Run down. The tablecloths were filthy. Lots of flies. But Charlie was hilarious in his broken English. So much fun. I asked if I could get something not on the menu and he took a deep breath and groaned and finally said "Why not!!" The food was absolutely amazing at this place and just goes to show that some of the best food can come from some of the most unassuming restaurants. Both Ryan and dad raved about their food as well.

Back to the room around 8:00 and then just hung out then to bed.