I didn’t have high hopes for today. I did last night at dinner, but the 2 am bump and grind woke me again and I stuggled to get back to sleep. Without a good night’s sleep, I felt like I was setting myself up for failure. Not what I wanted.
We got up at 5:45 to an alarm. The horror. Nathan got up and fixed us yogurt, granola, honey, coffee and whole milk. I got ready with a sense of dread in the pit of my stomach. I really wish I could have slept better to set me up for sucess today.
I messaged our hosts to ask if they had any suggestions to deal with the 2 am tunes. They did, so we will see how they work tonight.
At 6:50, Chover, our tuk tuk driver tooted his horn outside and we hopped in. It was raining, like it has every morning, so we were both glad we had arranged for the ride.
We got to the dive shop, and Dewey met us downstairs in his yellow rain coat. He invited us up to the restaurant upstairs to have a coffee while we determined if we were still going to dive.
What!? Crap. I did not come all this way, both literally and figuratively, to not dive today.
The rain lifted enough, just enough, so we loaded the boat with our stuff, Dewey, the captain Miguel, Tim, Kelly, Nathan and I and off we went to the first dive site.
The boat ride was kinda long, but when we got to the dive site, we all hopped in like no big deal. Even me.
After 50 or so minutes, we surfaced and climbed into the boat, ate pineapple and waited out our surface interval.
Before we jumped back in the water for dive number 2, I asked Dewey what we should expect – should it be harder to equalize than the first dive? He said no, it should be easier on dive number 2. So we all jumped in and away we went.
After the second dive, we surfaced to find it raining. And in our wet wetsuits, we were freezing. Tim, Kelly and I sat on the floor of the boat, out of the wind, for the long ride back to the shop.
We cleaned up the boat and hung up our gear to dry, in the rain, organized to dive tomorrow afternoon with Dewey, and walked home.
Once at home, 40 minutes later, and starving after 2 dives, we ate lunch, and I took a nap. Nathan worked on the journal. He was certain the sun would come out again, and when I woke up, the sun was shining. After a bit of sitting on our porch, we got back in the water and snorkeled in front of our home.
For dinner, we walked all the way back to the Mexican restaurant that’s over the dive shop. We decided that we need to always make sure to go diving with enough lempiras to be able to have the flaming hot cauldron of beans (anafre) if the weather’s shit and we’re freezing.
