The holidays are over? Already???

Well, I just came back from Australia on Sunday and as usual, I need a holiday to get over my holiday! I had a good time doing the Instructor Development Course and met many nice people, during the course and on the many boat trips I took out to the Great Barrier Reef. The diving was pretty good, but definitively not the best I have done. The diving was also more expensive than what I'm used to. I guess that's what you get for going to such a popular destination!

First live-aboard I jumped on after arriving in Cairns was Taka. We jumped on the boat in the evening and arrived at Cod Hole the next morning. This picture is taken there, where our guide fed the potato cod in front of us (the potato cod is the one with the spots).

The next picture was taken night diving, during the same trip. I found this parrot fish hiding in a hole.

This picture was takent on New Year's day, with the other IDC candidates and our course director. From left to right: guess who, Kelly, Keith (our course director) and Craig.

We went altitude diving in a crater lake. It was f***ing freezing down there at 30 meters! Craig said he couldn't even read the numbers on his dive computer he was shaking so hard and Kelly was wearing two freakin' wet suits one over the other! On our second dive there, we went looking for turtles and wanted to keep warm, so we kept above the 6 meter level (that's really shallow!). Didn't see any turtles, but swam though tree branches, saw some local fresh water fish and a lobster. All in all, it was a pretty good day, finishing with a seafood BBQ Craig dragged me to ( wink, wink!) with, among other things, the best crab I've ever had! I had sooooo much food, it earned me quite a reputation....