Hut 1, Hut 2, Hut 3…. (and Hut 4 too): Week 3 Touch Down
Hut 1, Hut 2, Hut 3…. (and Hut 4 too): Week 3 Touch Down
(For those of you who don’t know American football…the puns lost).
Week 3 started out with a bang with divers in the water getting close to completing their Advanced PADI certifications, and in water coral and fish spot identification tests. After the lecture on monitoring methods, everyone is even more antsy to begin hanging upside down and swimming very very slowly, to get a taste of the monitoring life. We want to extend a very warm welcome to our newly certified Dive masters Kendall and Hilary who joined us this past weekend from three weeks of intensive learning in Playa del Carmen. Week 4 is beginning with more excitement as former 5-weekers Jimmy and Jenna have rethought their other lives, and decided to stay with us here at Pez Maya for the next 5 weeks! Hooray!
Emma will let you all in on a little bit of info on the things we did this week. I (Shayle) am sitting in the pitch dark in the GVI office here at Pez Maya at 5:30 am this beautiful (most likely) Monday morning getting a few words out to you all out there before Sophia, Liv, Reshma and I hop on the bus to spend the next few days at the beautiful GVI base in Mahahual for the base exchange. None of us are packed yet, but the bosses just came in sleepy eyed letting me know that unfortunately, today is another no dive day here at Pez Maya, and that everyone else will get to sleep in until 8am. Looks like I'll be alone in the dark here for now.
This week’s projection:
After one day of no diving, the Pez Maya team used there skills to build a pier out from shore to further eliminate the obstacle of hard boat pushes due to high waves. After a few hot coffees, the team stayed up all night putting the finishing touches on MAYA, the new two storied dive boat here. Maya is fully equipped to battle rough waters, complete with a central open water entrance hole for divers in the centre of the boat to eliminate those hard entrance and exits.
The first divers out on Wednesday were lucky enough to happen upon a very rare sight. A school of whale sharks circled the group for ten minutes, posing for photographs, before swimming away. Strange sighting continued through out the week with eagle rays larger than Rob's wing span, and a manatee sighting by Lluvia's group. Sam and Sam's divers approached carefully as they didn't want to disturb the very rare mating ritual between the banded coral shrimp. Laura's divers had the best luck when they realized that the annual coral reproduction day had moved from August to April. They spent the entire hour underwater watching millions of small larvae being dispersed into the water.
Dana and Jaen's organic veggie garden has started to take root and there are plenty of fresh veggies and gourmet dinners in our future.
It really seems like our luck is changing here at Pez Maya. Also, if anyone out there is looking for what to do with all those extra snacks, a place to store your kites or wave boards, or just feels that nervous twitching in your hands from not having written a real (non-email) letter in ages…. Send 'em here to Pez Maya, Sian Ka´an Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
(For those of you who don’t know American football…the puns lost).
Week 3 started out with a bang with divers in the water getting close to completing their Advanced PADI certifications, and in water coral and fish spot identification tests. After the lecture on monitoring methods, everyone is even more antsy to begin hanging upside down and swimming very very slowly, to get a taste of the monitoring life. We want to extend a very warm welcome to our newly certified Dive masters Kendall and Hilary who joined us this past weekend from three weeks of intensive learning in Playa del Carmen. Week 4 is beginning with more excitement as former 5-weekers Jimmy and Jenna have rethought their other lives, and decided to stay with us here at Pez Maya for the next 5 weeks! Hooray!
Emma will let you all in on a little bit of info on the things we did this week. I (Shayle) am sitting in the pitch dark in the GVI office here at Pez Maya at 5:30 am this beautiful (most likely) Monday morning getting a few words out to you all out there before Sophia, Liv, Reshma and I hop on the bus to spend the next few days at the beautiful GVI base in Mahahual for the base exchange. None of us are packed yet, but the bosses just came in sleepy eyed letting me know that unfortunately, today is another no dive day here at Pez Maya, and that everyone else will get to sleep in until 8am. Looks like I'll be alone in the dark here for now.
This week’s projection:
After one day of no diving, the Pez Maya team used there skills to build a pier out from shore to further eliminate the obstacle of hard boat pushes due to high waves. After a few hot coffees, the team stayed up all night putting the finishing touches on MAYA, the new two storied dive boat here. Maya is fully equipped to battle rough waters, complete with a central open water entrance hole for divers in the centre of the boat to eliminate those hard entrance and exits.The first divers out on Wednesday were lucky enough to happen upon a very rare sight. A school of whale sharks circled the group for ten minutes, posing for photographs, before swimming away. Strange sighting continued through out the week with eagle rays larger than Rob's wing span, and a manatee sighting by Lluvia's group. Sam and Sam's divers approached carefully as they didn't want to disturb the very rare mating ritual between the banded coral shrimp. Laura's divers had the best luck when they realized that the annual coral reproduction day had moved from August to April. They spent the entire hour underwater watching millions of small larvae being dispersed into the water.
Dana and Jaen's organic veggie garden has started to take root and there are plenty of fresh veggies and gourmet dinners in our future.
It really seems like our luck is changing here at Pez Maya. Also, if anyone out there is looking for what to do with all those extra snacks, a place to store your kites or wave boards, or just feels that nervous twitching in your hands from not having written a real (non-email) letter in ages…. Send 'em here to Pez Maya, Sian Ka´an Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
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