This last week has been great. We finished up our dive master training and started working on a couple specialty certifications that allegedly give us more experience and information about certain areas of diving. Truly it is a pyramid scheme to pay more $$$ to a nameless North American scuba diving association, but the fact is the certs mean something when we go other places and dive with unfamiliar shops.
We did have the opportunity to dive with some of our favorite people this last week, and even had a chance encounter with a huge pod of dolphins.
It is absolutely surreal to be immersed in the deep blue water with a pod of dolphins chattering and squeaking around you. They frolick and play all around you. They obviously are bonded to one another, it is mating season, but play is still paramount on their minds. Maybe we aren’t the more highly evolved of the mammals, because dolphins and porpoises seem so content to swim and jump in the bow wave of a boat, or twist and dive around you as you swim among them. Mankind seems so bent on destruction and misery that maybe the more evolved life form doesn’t walk on two legs.
We ran into the pod on two different days this week. It was probably the moment that I realized that all the planning, stress, and working from a third-world country internet connection was worth it. The peace and serenity of seeing and experiencing something so foreign to the desert of Nevada was simply amazing.
Anyways, two of our new friends leave today for a trip to Belize and then to meet us in BVI. We will miss them for the next week, but look forward to our next adventure and fun together. Still a few days of diving for us. Some loose ends to tie up and packing to do. Hard to believe that our time in Utila is coming to an end. We will definitely be back, maybe regularly.