Vacation
Samsoe
Been back at work for two days, and i already hate it =/ I was just getting used to my holiday :)
My girlfriend and me went to Samsoe from 28th july to 4th august. We had a nice holiday, not the best weather in the world. You could be sarcastic and call it a typical danish summer i guess :(
We had a few visitors, and were actually quite social on our vacation :) My girlfriends parents visited for a day, and we saw the northern part of the island. And then after that we had a few days to ourselves :)
Wednesday evening a pair of our friends+ daughter came to visit us. The girls, all three of them, could be social, and Jesper and I went for some underwater spear-gun hunting. We did not have the luckiest dives on the planet, and the weather was pretty much against us, but we had a nice time diving and talking etc.
Here below are some random pictures from the trip, eventually i will upload them all to the gallery :)
Diving ..
My diving equipment collection is as good as complete :) Equipment for free-diving that is anyways.
Like i wrote earlier , I’m going to Egypt in September to dive with some friends for a week in the Red Sea, near Mashra Alam, we will be staying at Mashra Shagra. So i felt it was time to get my own divers gear. I bought the gear i did because i wanted to have partial gear for SCUBA diving, and at the same time have all the gear needed for free-diving in danish waters during the danish summer.
I’m basically just waiting for a good friend of mine to finish his exams, and then presume we shall start doing some free diving with spear guns :D I almost cannot wait, but i told my self, that the first few times I’m gonna dive with a buddy, although it could easily be done alone. For starters i presume ill be spending quite some time learning to hold my breath. I need that to obtain some descent bottom times, so that i can actually shoot something :D
As for the SCUBA diving, I’m considering to join up with Quatre Force diving in Aarhus, they have dive evenings every Wednesday. So that you can keep up the routines. I’m pretty sure ill have a bunch of those dives in my logbook soon =) I’m gonna chill till i get the Advanced OWD certificate first though. I’m working overtime on work as much as i can, just for the cash, which are always welcome =)
Dive-mania..
Ever since i was in Turkey, sometime in 2004, where i for the first time tried SCUBA diving, i have been more or less obsessed with the thought of diving. February 2007, whilst being in Thailand, my dream came through, i dived around the national park on Phi Phi Ley in Thailand, and became a certified PADI Open Water Diver. This was most likely the most thrilling experience i ever had in my life, at the time being ( now its the though of beeing a father ), therefor i guess its natural to do some more of it :)
A while ago a friend of mine, whom i was roadtripping the US with in 2004, asked me if i wanted to come dive in Egypt later this year. I think it was about the same time as i talked with him about going to US in 2008 to dive actually. Anyways, he asked, and i was extremely thrilled about it. Now, that’s just one step closer, i asked another god friend of mine if he wanted to come along, since at this time we were 3 guys, and when diving you need to be paired, since you always have a buddy, and he did :)
So, i booked the trip yesterday, and payed the deposit, and today i went to a local dive shop called Quatre Force Diving here in Aarhus and bought a mask, fins and a snorkel as well. Plus some other mask for free diving, since i also have taken a interest in underwater hunting ( snorkeling, and then diving with one breath of air, armed with a speargun ). I simply cannot wait to get going. I ordered some gear ( weight belt etc. ) over the internet, which should arrive Friday, and perhaps i can get to test it during the weekend :)
Also, im curently considering taking the Advanced Open Water Diver course with PADI as well.
Thailand trip site online ..
and so is the image gallery with pictures from the trip. 1142 of them :D The web page is entirely in danish, and to be honest, i do not know if I’m gonna bother making an English version.
The image gallery can be found by clicking here. The idea is, that ill add comments on all those pictures eventually, again, only danish.
The Thailand site it self, can be found simply by clicking here.
