Adrian's Underwater Adventure

After a one-day delay due to an illness (apparently your scuba gear can handle it if you get sick underwater, but I didn't care to find out), today I had my first unconfined dive. Translation: I got to do a real scuba dive! With actual coral! (rather than diving in 5-10 feet of water with nothing but sea grass and silt).

While I was a bit nervous on the boat, as soon as I got into the water I forgot all of that - it was so amazing to be underwater, swimming past these incredible coral formations 20-30 feet below the surface. This could definitely get addicting. I couldn't believe it when our instructor told us to get out of the water a mere 5 minutes into the dive, but then I realized that 40 min had passed - time flies. The main highlight of the dive (besides the incredible coral formations) was seeing a moray eel swimming around. Very cool. I have two more dives tomorrow, and then I will officially have my Open Water certification! Can't wait for tomorrow so I can get back in the water!

I don't have my hands on an underwater camera yet, but I did get a few pics above water:

loading up the boat

look who's ready to go diving!!