20/6/2006 - Windy thus recap: Salamanda
There has been a strong wind warning here for a couple of days which means rough seas (even the pool has surface chop), lots of driftwood, Falling Coconut Alert and not much diving.
 
It does mean that I've got some time to post a couple of thins though, including a couple of snaps from the Salamanda, a decommissioned Blue Lagoon Cruise ship that was sunk a while back in between Vomo and Beachcomber Islands. I had a student doing an advanced course so I went there on the premise of doing his wreck dive although I really just wanted to go for a look as I hadn't been before. It was alright. Vis was good enough to take in her entire 40m, not a huge amount of coral but a few nice anemones, a big puffer who clearly lives there and some other stuff interesting enough for another visit or three.
 
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23/6/2006 - Windy |
| Posted by Lissa |
We've had strong winds here - more a matter of falling fircones than falling coconuts, and some very skittish squirrels. Stong wind also seems to have a bad effect on small children!
At work I have been teaching children to mummify a pharoah - I expect after all those years in Egypt you and your parents know all about that. To be honest I think that I am more suited to the role of Victorian Schoolmarm than Egyptian Priest (male), but it all adds to the rich variety of life. |
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24/6/2006 - Mummificating |
| Posted by rickydazla |
| Are you teaching them how to hook out brains through the nostril? |
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24/6/2006 - Mummies |
| Posted by Lissa |
Of course! As you have just proved, years later, when the little darlings have forgotten everything else, they will remember that the brain was thought to be nothing but a snot producer and that it was mushed up and removed through the nose. I also teach them the composition of natron so that they can mummify their own relatives when the time comes.
The hardest bit is having to tell the girls that for the time we are in the Ibu we must make our minds totally blank so that we can pass ourselves off as men since all the priests were male. Most of them find this quite demeaning (although the ponies many of them quite often pretend to be are hardly brighter). |
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3/7/2006 - Out on the big blue sea |
| Posted by Nao |
Ha! For once I am not jealous of you, because I have just been sailing for a week round the Med (pics on my flickr site). I am brown! Did not do any diving, but did do some swimming in the sea. It was great.
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