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My holidays have begun! And first stop for me is Utila. Yes, I know, AGAIN!! We had a confusing last couple of days at school where the date for graduation was changed more times than I can remember, which was not helpful when we were planning our holiday around it. In the end is was decided that Monday the 10th would be graduation. This gave us 10 days to do something with and we weren't going to sit around and wait for it, so we packed our bags that night and left the next morning for Utila.
As soon as you arrive on Utila you relax (unless you're like me and get sea sick on the ferry - in which case it takes 30 minutes lying flat on the dock to relax you). It's just amazing how instant it is. We had had a really hectic 24 hours of hurriedly packing and traveling, but as soon as we got to Utila everything just slowed down! Caribbean time!
I was planning on doing a course in Freediving in those 10 days. Freediving is when you teach your body how to dive to depths the same as scuba diving, but without tanks or any equipment at all. I was really excited to start, but it turned out that Tex, the only instructor for freediving was away for the week! It wasn't hard to be convinced of coming straight back to Utila after graduation! So for 10 days I lay about on the deck, snorkeled, ate lots of food and generally was on holiday.
We went back to Tela on the 10th for a day. It was a massive pain with all the traveling and money spent to go back for just a day, but it was good to see everyone one last time and have the opportunity to say goodbye to the school and the other teachers.
Freediving is amazing! It's magical. To do it, you have to put yourself into a state of relaxation by focusing on controlling your breathing, which for me turns the dive into a dreamy experience. I close my eyes on the decent to help keep myself from being distracted by things. For example I found if I could see the other rope which had a knot in it at 12 metres, it'd subconsciously aim for it, and when I'd reached it, I'd feel it was time to come up. I only opened my eyes when my body told me it was ready to go up.
One time we were diving at the ship wreck and I closed my eyes as I decended what turned out to be 18 metres. I opened my eyes when I was ready and the entire wreck was spread out before me. It was amazing! The wreck is so huge and it is covered in coral and fish. There were big ungraceful scuba divers all over the wreck giving off giant streams of light blue bubbles. I felt very free - everything for me was silent and seemed to be running in slow motion. I was just hovering there staring for a while before I remembered I should probably breathe sometime soon, so I started ascending, watching the wreck as it slowly dissolved into the blue.
As soon as you arrive on Utila you relax (unless you're like me and get sea sick on the ferry - in which case it takes 30 minutes lying flat on the dock to relax you). It's just amazing how instant it is. We had had a really hectic 24 hours of hurriedly packing and traveling, but as soon as we got to Utila everything just slowed down! Caribbean time!
I was planning on doing a course in Freediving in those 10 days. Freediving is when you teach your body how to dive to depths the same as scuba diving, but without tanks or any equipment at all. I was really excited to start, but it turned out that Tex, the only instructor for freediving was away for the week! It wasn't hard to be convinced of coming straight back to Utila after graduation! So for 10 days I lay about on the deck, snorkeled, ate lots of food and generally was on holiday.
We went back to Tela on the 10th for a day. It was a massive pain with all the traveling and money spent to go back for just a day, but it was good to see everyone one last time and have the opportunity to say goodbye to the school and the other teachers.
Freediving is amazing! It's magical. To do it, you have to put yourself into a state of relaxation by focusing on controlling your breathing, which for me turns the dive into a dreamy experience. I close my eyes on the decent to help keep myself from being distracted by things. For example I found if I could see the other rope which had a knot in it at 12 metres, it'd subconsciously aim for it, and when I'd reached it, I'd feel it was time to come up. I only opened my eyes when my body told me it was ready to go up.
One time we were diving at the ship wreck and I closed my eyes as I decended what turned out to be 18 metres. I opened my eyes when I was ready and the entire wreck was spread out before me. It was amazing! The wreck is so huge and it is covered in coral and fish. There were big ungraceful scuba divers all over the wreck giving off giant streams of light blue bubbles. I felt very free - everything for me was silent and seemed to be running in slow motion. I was just hovering there staring for a while before I remembered I should probably breathe sometime soon, so I started ascending, watching the wreck as it slowly dissolved into the blue.
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