Bahamas Update - week 4

Week 4 at Greenforce started on Monday 7^th February, where we were all greeted by fantastic weather here at Stainard Creek J We were awake early to begin all our advanced open water certification in deep and drift diving.

The first group of the morning got going with the deep elements, where they witnessed a reef shark around 10m below them after they entered the water. This was exciting for many of us as it was the first time that some of us have seen a shark swimming in the waters with us.

Great weather followed in the coming days of the week, so on Wednesday 9^th February, all of us decided to go snorkeling down at the point which was a 15 minute walk. This was also exciting as under the beating sun, 4 of us got to see and swim with a spotted eagle ray. This was also exciting as they are spectacular creatures to see.

Thursday 10^th February brought hot weather again as we made our way down to the school at 2 o’clock. After a successful hour teaching session we later played the Forfar guys at football at Queens Park. 3-2 to Forfar L

Friday 11^th February all of us at Greenforce took a trip down to Uncle Charlie’s Blue Hole, where we all jumped off trees and rope swings for 2 hours J It was great fun!

Saturday was a relaxing day, as we were able to complete some knowledge reviews in our PADI books for our advanced certification. Saturday night was a treat as we were given pizza for a meal and then headed north for a motel party along with Forfar, which was great fun all night

Bahamas Update - week 3

We started week three by finishing off learning our fish and with a shark lecture by C.J. including some incredible pictures from her experiences including some from the neighboring island of Bimini. Everyone then started learning for the fish test on Friday of course while lying on the beach. We are all now beginning to settle in to the island life.

We completed our PADI Open Water Qualification. We dove at two different dive sites the first called ‘Kateatorium’ where we did two of the dives and saw a great barracuda. Then on Thursday and Friday we dove at ‘Ampi’; where again we saw a barracuda and some stingrays as well as various other fish. We did some underwater fish points with Sam and Jules. On Friday we did our final PADI open water exam and our first land fish test.

On Thursday afternoon we did our second afternoon in school, where shark songs and food web lectures were done as well as small wrestling matches with the manic school kids. On Sunday most people headed up to Jack’s Restaurant to watch the Superbowl. The rest of the week we have been enjoying the sea and beautiful white beach as well as topping up the tans while learning our fish for the next test.

Will & Harvey

Bahamas Update - week 2

The week started off with more fish lessons and tests to check our progress. We also were given a lecture about mangroves, which are heavily present in Andros. We followed up with a field trip to view mangroves near our camp led by CJ.

On Thursday we made our first visit to the local school with lectures that we planned, which was more or less successful since the children were very excited to see us. On Friday we did our first dive to Staniard Rock, which was part of our confined water dive in the process to achieve certification. Everyone was very excited to finally be in the water.

On Saturday we experienced our first open water dive, which was absolutely amazing, including seeing a barracuda and many other fish that we had learned about in fish class.

Lots of love from/ viva Deutschland from

Kanna