Challenges and beach olympics!
Huge congratulations go to all Triathletes
as everyone successfully completed the course and the total raised came to an impressive
$1544, which will be put to good use improving Punta Allen’s recycling centre. The
volunteer team beat the staff team in the run, but it was a close contest all
the way through the swim and the cycle.
Special congratulations to solo competitor, Peyton, who came sixth in
his age group and 32nd overall!
A non-diving Friday after an extremely
windy week called for a plan-B day that was full of excitement. This resulted
in some crazy fun Beach Olympics. Each hut plus all of the staff got creative
inventing a team name, flag and outfit. As the games progressed everyone became
more and more competitive. Particularly
in the spinny-pole relay which involved sprinting to a pole running around it
ten times then running back in as straight a line as possible, which proved
near impossible and hilariously funny for everyone involved.
This week has been much more productive
diving-wise. There have been some very exciting incidental sightings. Today, there
was a huge Loggerhead Turtle sighted, from the boat, whilst it was surfacing
for air. It was almost 2m long with an enormous head. These incredible beautiful
creatures lay their eggs on the beaches during the months of May-June, the rest
of the time they do not venture onto land but are often sighted on dives. A
total of four turtles, Loggerheads and Hawksbills have been sighted this week
which is fantastic. We have also had a very unusual sighting of a Sail Fish,
these large fish are very uncommon around here at this time of year. So the
divers who saw it were exceedingly lucky.
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