Enough Said

In elementary school I would get in trouble for talking to much in
class. As I grew up I was always complemented or at least known for
telling stories, whether they be relevant or not you can be the judge
yourselves. I work now in a remote place where we have few tourist.
It is great because that makes my job easier, but on the other hand it
also means that our guest do not have a lot to do after diving. So as
a side part to the job I have to, or get to (depending on the persons)
hang out with them at dinner and so on to make sure they are enjoying
themselves.

During the times on the boat, in the shop, and after work, I get to
share stories and help to make sure that our guests are laughing even
in bad whether, bad visibility, or when everything else goes wrong.
Well we recently had two guests that were Kiwi's and were quite fun.
They were quieter guys, but had a lot of experience diving, and both
had spent lots of time on the water. I am very far from being any
type of experts about boats etc. Must guests think they are know it
alls and tell us how to do our job, where these guys showed quiet
patience, and were able to teach me a few interesting things, when I
took the chance to listen.

So it has encouraged me to keep my mouth shut longer, and listen to
others a bit more, even thought they may happen to be annoying tourist
:) Just a thought I had yesterday, that I felt like sharing.

Luke

Pub Crawl Pics

Not too many pics from the day, but heres a few.

Munda - Naru - Pub Crawl

Well It has been awhile since I have updated, it has been busy around here.  It has also been a time with lots of parties, to celebrate various things.  Last weekend I was in Munda teaching some classes out there, as the instructors there were in Australia, and now July looks like we will have 15-20 divers almost everyday (a typical day now is 20 a week). 

Then came back to Gizo and working too much, when on Tuesday I left work early to stop by a birthday party for the hotel owners son.  It was on an island he owns called Naru Island, and is the one I swam to when I was "misplaced at sea".  I planned on stopping by for an hour or so, but when I saw the arrangments I ended up staying the night.  For food they had half a cow, a pig, about 10 chickens, crocodile, and lots of fish.  It was all cooked in ovens made in the ground and delicously tender, you just pulled hunks of meat off and ate and ate.  Then there was the beverages, over 50 cases of beer and 3 huge eskies full of some potent punch.  All this was for about 40 adults, and 20 kids.  Well as you can imagine I slept quite well and full on the beach that night.  It was embarrassing to call the boss the next morning on the radio, to say if he needed me at work to send a boat to get me off the beach!

Lastly on Saturday I organized a pub crawl from bars on various islands to celebrate the 4th of July.  We had about 50 or so people following it (8 Brits who I reminded that we won), and it turned out great.  We started at Fatboys at 11am the furthest away, and had a large sea food buffet as well as some swimming and kayaking.  Around 4pm we moved down to Sanbis Resort and had a few happy hour drinks there, and celebrated a birthday, then at 6pm to PT 109 for a predinner cocktail, then lastly to the Gizo Hotel for a nice dinner and some intersting shots the owner provided, my favorite was Russian Cocaine.  You take  a lime slice, put sugar on one side, instant coffee on the other, then put that on your tongue coffee up and take a shot of vodka.

I have some photos I will post, but I need to get them from others, as I didn't want to risk my camera on the boating adventure.