After three days of diving and the last two on the same, not so interesting spot, we decided to take a day off and relax. I got into Mother Hubbard mode and made Delia Smith breakfast baps and a banana cake from the same cook book. When there are more bananas than you can eat fresh what do you do with them? It goes against the grain to throw away food; I pickle, preserve, with search the internet for 101 ways with papaya, and I make banana bread. For once the bread soft and white not the hard bricks of last year. I think the secret is new yeast.
Chris from Stray Kitty came over with spare sail batons he was donating to our 'improve the sun shade project'. David plans to use them as strengtheners to give the tent shape. His three children were doing school and he needed a break. One conversation morphed into the next and ended with us offering to take his oldest daughter for a dive.
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The 20m power cruiser, Oso Blanco was the host dive boat today. We loaded our dive kit in the dinghy and blasted out to Osso with the Stray Kits. Oso was full with kids and adults taking a break between dives / snorkels. Once they had cleared for the next swim we got Andrea kitted up, gave her the brief and signs and then she and David descended slowly. She's 11 and this was her 3rd try dive, She's a natural and came back with a big grin on her face. Thinking safety safety, David kept her to no more than 8m and 25 minutes with her Dad and me as surface cover. I believe we have another convert to the religion of diving.
After diving we joined the kids diving and jumping from the top deck of Osso. Lots of fun.
In the evening we had early drinks on Geramar and then over to Jarana for the later evening. Two more boats joined the Viania Bay community; Kilkea and Boree.
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