Bahamas- April 2010- Week 4

Week four has been the week of the crossword, with clues being shouted across camp constantly. It has also been the week of close encounters with Bull and Nurse Sharks and ‘Big Pop’ the 8ft Loggerhead Turtle.

We start the week with more of our Advanced Open Water dives (perfecting our buoyancy whilst doing slaloms if always good), and also went on snorkelling trips. The amount of coral and fish life you can see just a couple of meters under the surface is amazing!

The paper fish tests were also sat this week and everyone passed with flying colours, so we can now move onto the in-water fish IDing. Pierre the first aid mannequin was also introduced to us as part of the EFR course we started and completed this week, and as a result, offers of medical assistance are now common (whether required or not!).

We also went on a few trips around the island this week, to Morgan’s Bluff (the most Northern point of Andros) and to the Fresh Creek Lighthouse and Somerset Beach, which looks like a picture in a magazine.

Saturday evening’s dressing-up theme as ‘Cowboys and Indians’ and ended up with a water fight on the beach in which everyone got soaked – a good end to an enjoyable week.

Laura Mann