A lie in at last! Well 8.30AM as we were woken up by the hotel staff who got the wrong room! Dave wasn't annoyed at all. Feeling more confident on the bike and more importantly saving 5$ Dave decided he could now manage a manual shift motorbike with gears and everything!So after a few jerky starts we set off on the quiet stretch of road that is Mui Ne until we got to where Will and Monica were staying. Once there they let us use their private beach which is on a...

Got picked up first thing this morning for our bus to Mui Ne. We met a couple on the bus (Brigge and Layne) who were also on our diving boat yesterday. We were basically the only people on the bus and had it to ourselves, other than 1 or 2 locals and the crazy bus driver. We soon made the decision to not look forward, at all - it was too scary. We survived and got dropped off (again having to tell the driver to stop) right in the centre of Mui Ne, which is basic...

Woohoo!!! - we've passed and are now qualified PADI Open Water Scuba divers!!! First thing this morning again we we were taken directly ro the boat for our 18 metre dive! It went really well and didn't take u too long to get to the sea bed. Our instructor then made us do more skills which involved hovering, that we had to do in turns for 30 seconds each. Dave went first whilst Claire was left to play with a group of 4 fish that were very curious about her. ...

Our first sea dive! We had to get up at 6:30 AM to go and catch the boat, to do our first dive at Debbies beach Hon Mun. It was nice to be into the clean fresh sea and out of that horrible pool where we've probably caught some horrible disease. We got down to 12 metres with no problems really, unfortunatley the visibility was really bad, just 1-2 metres, so we didn't get to see too much. It was fun though and the second dive was similar but we saw 1 fish We...

All morning was taken up by theory again, learning more about the science involved in scuba, nitrogen, oxygen, how long you can stay at certain depths, how to kill a great white by stabbing them with your flippers and so on...Unfortunatley it's not just a case of head down, off you go, and then come back up! After theory we went back to change at the apartment for our swimming pool session, where we encountered the largest cockroach that we have seen yet on this...