Day 159 April 17th 2007, Scuba in a Swimming Pool - Cairns - PADI Course Day 1

Learning to Scuba Dive has been on the to do list for quite a few years and the Great Barrier Reef has to be one of the best places to learn, contrast this to the UK and the warm English Channel and you can understand why we waited to get here to learn. Before we can get out to the reef though 2 days of classroom and swimming pool instruction had to be completed.

It's been a while since I've been at school and it took a while to get going, the first pool lesson was also pretty interesting as we bobbed about with the gracefulness of a Giraffe on ice skates. Nothing too difficult and to make the school experience complete we even got homework

Highlights: Sitting on the bottom of a swimming pool trying to blow rings of bubbles