Under the sea (part 2)

Yes, we truly fell in love with scuba diving this summer.

We set on a serious diving expedition this weekend. The weather forecast was good, our flat seemed safe enough, we got all the gear together. I even managed to get up at 5:55 am, so off we went.



First stop Beli on island Cres.

After some serious web research I decided to give the diving base in Beli a try. The road to Beli itself was a true adventure. Wide enough for only one vehicle at a time it has regular meeting points where you can safely let an oncoming vehicle pass by. Luckily there isn't a lot of traffic on it.

Beli is better known for the project of repopulation of eurasian griffon. But as written before, our goal was only the diving base. We made three dives altogether, two from the shore and one by boat. Just off Beli's shore there is a cliff that goes all the way to 40 metres underwater. The cliff is as full of life as you can imagine. Enough for at least two great dives. The third dive of the day was done by boat. We went to see an underwater tunnel that starts on 3 metres and goes down to 15 metres. Schools of fish were all around. Pure magic.

We spent the night in Krk and went to Silo the next day. We've been to Silo's diving centre once before. It is much larger and better organised than the one in Beli, but we did most of the diving in Beli alone (there were two other divers on our first dive there, the rest we did all alone) and somehow we didn't feel the same being on boat with 8 other divers. The location they took us to was nice enough, but with divers all around it just lost the charm of exploring. Slightly disappointed and still tired from the previous day we decided to call it a day (well a weekend) and get home.

Again I highly recommend the diving center in Beli, more info to be found on their website.

Sorry, but we didn't take our camera with us this time. No pics, sorry.

...it's not always a nice adventure though.

I wasn't really sure whether I'd write anything about this past weekend at all. Then I decided that this weekend was quite an adventure, even if it wasn't a nice one.

Friday night. Katja was on call and two couchsurfers were staying at our place. Since it was their last night in Ljubljana they invited me to join them for a drink in our couchsurfing room. A typical summer storm was obviously coming, a bit of thunder and lightning, a quick shower, nothing out of the ordinary. We didn't realise that the clowns who are converting our attic into flats have done something wrong again...

Next thing I know the water was pouring from the ceiling of our guest room. I ran to see whether there was leakage anywhere else. And of course it was. Another waterfall from the ceiling in the living room. We spent next half hour runing around trying to get at least some of the water into buckets.

Luckily the shower was over soon enough, but Marii and Nick ended up sleeping on mattresses in the dining room. I'm sure this was one of the worst couchsurfing experiences ever!

Below are two of the pics I took for the insurance company on Friday night.

 
 
Still there was an upside to all of this. On Saturday morning we had a nice breakfast together and all of a sudden Nick (the Australian half of the couchsurfing duo) produced a jar of vegemite from his backpack. So we finally had a taste of this infamous Australian food. Supposedly I'm one of the few non-Australians who genuinely liked it. :)