R&R in Playa

We're in Playa del Carmen this weekend for a little R&R. The other camps in the region should also be here, so it's going to be a pretty huge GVI party weekend by the sounds of it!

The last week was busy with lectures on Emergency First Response training, turtle identification, reef threats and we started learning how to actually do the monitoring. I started my course work for Rescue Diver, and have pretty much decided to do the Dive Master course. That course is going to be A LOT of work!! But it'll mean that I can work professionally in the diving world, so it should be worth it.

While in Playa, we've each got a list of supplies to bring back with us. On my list: Tabasco, Tabasco, Tabasco, dive watch. Yes, the dive watch that I've had for 20 years has finally succumbed to old age, although it was completely my fault. The doo-hicky, turny knob (which does actually have a correct name; something like capstan or turbonkinator...) wasn' screwed in tightly and so now I've got salty condensation inside. Amazingly, it's still going, 2 days on from the water intrusion, but I just know that it's going to give up the ghost any day now.

That's it for now, we've got a busy day ahead!