Married life
seems to be quite good fun, although I only have experience of three weeks of it.
We've just got back from honeymoon, which was a week on safari in Kenya and a week on a beach in Mauritius. Something to do with flight times and stop-overs in Nairobi meant that we were away for over two weeks, but only spent six or seven nights in each of the main two elements.
Greg took some amazing photographs on safari - we saw the big five and countless others too. We became a bit used to seeing tiktik and wildebeste (although seeing one thrashing around under a lion was pretty gosh-darn-it cool), but we saw them in so much detail! When we get the photographs up I'll link to them. I had an amazing pair of binoculars -the first time I used them properly was our first evening in Samburu when we saw a leopard halfway up a tree, eating something. I was able to see its whiskers. The binoculars let in a lot more light than Greg's lense, consequently to get enough light his shutter speed was s-l-o-w - so kudos to him for getting non-blurry photographs.
Mauritius was great. After a series of 4:30/ 5:30 am starts for safari we were still in the habit of rising early, which meant all the more time to spend at the spa, by the pool, at the beach, or just mooching around.
We didn't dive much. The first boat trip was in some big waves and then there was a noticeable swell underwater too. Our DM somehow managed to dive with only 100bar in his tank (and didn't tell us). Usually you go in with about 200, and surface about 60 minutes later with 70 or 80. So when he indicated the dive was over, I was at a loss - I was on about 100 myself. He pointed to his air guage which was empty. Damn! And then, of course, we had to sit on the boat waiting for all the other divers to surface. Pleasantly sunny, but not good for those of us who have funny reactions to seeing moving hills of water. One Frenchie said he'd been sick under water. I nearly hurled on the way back.
The dive itself - not amazing. Visibility wasn't as high as some places (Maldives, Red Sea) but we did see about four stone fish (poisonous) which I hadn't seen much of before and a yellow moray eel. No sharks though. No camera underwater either, which reminded me how much I enjoy diving with Greg. It's a bit like strolling through some attractive scenery surrounded with interesting flora and fauna - hang on, a bit like safari!
We've just got back from honeymoon, which was a week on safari in Kenya and a week on a beach in Mauritius. Something to do with flight times and stop-overs in Nairobi meant that we were away for over two weeks, but only spent six or seven nights in each of the main two elements.
Greg took some amazing photographs on safari - we saw the big five and countless others too. We became a bit used to seeing tiktik and wildebeste (although seeing one thrashing around under a lion was pretty gosh-darn-it cool), but we saw them in so much detail! When we get the photographs up I'll link to them. I had an amazing pair of binoculars -the first time I used them properly was our first evening in Samburu when we saw a leopard halfway up a tree, eating something. I was able to see its whiskers. The binoculars let in a lot more light than Greg's lense, consequently to get enough light his shutter speed was s-l-o-w - so kudos to him for getting non-blurry photographs.
Mauritius was great. After a series of 4:30/ 5:30 am starts for safari we were still in the habit of rising early, which meant all the more time to spend at the spa, by the pool, at the beach, or just mooching around.
We didn't dive much. The first boat trip was in some big waves and then there was a noticeable swell underwater too. Our DM somehow managed to dive with only 100bar in his tank (and didn't tell us). Usually you go in with about 200, and surface about 60 minutes later with 70 or 80. So when he indicated the dive was over, I was at a loss - I was on about 100 myself. He pointed to his air guage which was empty. Damn! And then, of course, we had to sit on the boat waiting for all the other divers to surface. Pleasantly sunny, but not good for those of us who have funny reactions to seeing moving hills of water. One Frenchie said he'd been sick under water. I nearly hurled on the way back.
The dive itself - not amazing. Visibility wasn't as high as some places (Maldives, Red Sea) but we did see about four stone fish (poisonous) which I hadn't seen much of before and a yellow moray eel. No sharks though. No camera underwater either, which reminded me how much I enjoy diving with Greg. It's a bit like strolling through some attractive scenery surrounded with interesting flora and fauna - hang on, a bit like safari!
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