Up @ 7am to go swimming, Gwen & me are having the swimming pool all to ourselves. After a shower, i go to the diving center @ 8am.

"Fidel", the divinginstructor is a gentle and friendly man, i could talk to him in english and he gave me all the information i needed. I quickly go for breakfast and get ready to go diving.

Eventually we are with 8 people to go diving; Fidel & me, an Italian couple, Morten & Runa (from Norway), a guy from Swiss and Miquel (a Spanish Belgian). Its a nice Group.
I pay 175 cuc for 7 dives, and i don't need to pay for my gear, so i get a gift of 40 cuc. – I will be diving 2 dives every day, except on the last day...

DIVE 1
Location: Camaronero II (Rancho Luna)
Visability: 15 meters, temperature of the water: 28 graden. We dive for 48 minutes, with a max dept of 26 meters.
Its a wreckdive, we dive through a little cave (coralcave), i see little purple shrimps, a sort seaspider, a balloonfish, parrotfishes, damsels and corals – many corals in all sorts of colours & shapes...

Dive 2
Location; El Labyrintho – Rancho Luna
Visibility 10 meters, we dive 50 minutes, with a maximum dept of 20 meters.
We are diving in between a labyrinth of Corals (beautiful!), We an eel, trompetfish & parrotfishes, also a school of barberfishes – very pretty bleu/purple fishes!

It was almost 2 years ago since i had been diving and it was fantastic! If i haven't been diving for a while, i'm always nerveous and a bit scared and stressy – but as soon as you go "down under", i get that "wauw – and jeeehee and look-at-that feeling" again...

Fidel was my buddy for both of the dives, and just as in Oz with Mauritz and in Thailand with Kim, i just felt very save with my instructor – which makes i can enjoy the dive a lot more and with a very comfortable feeling. Its just the idea that when anything would go wrong, you are in the presence of someone who is calm, and experienced – that makes you feel save.

There were less fishes as in Oz and Thailand, but i'm sure i was just spoiled having my first dives there... Yet this was the first time i went wreckdiving – i always thought it wouldn't be my "thing" but its amazing how a boatwreck that sunk 20 years ago already has created a new underwaterfauna of corals and places where fishes can hide & live... Cuba has by the way a great variaty of corals in all different kind of shapes and colours... amazing.

I just really enjoyed the "whole thing" again, the only thing that bothered me was that i had some difficulties with clearing my ears again... the first few minutes i felt like i was holding up the group because of it...

After diving i walked along the beach to my hotel again, its a 25 minute walk – and the beach was compared to yesterday as good as empty.

In the hotel i went for another swim, a bit of chilling and dinner – food isn't bad, but nothing compared to the food we ate at the casa particulares... - so what did we learn here... yep, "all-inn" isn't all great after all...