I forgot to add to yesterday's post. Yesterday morning before our lesson, one of the guys that works here asked me for a hand. We went down the beach and he showed me a live turtle had been washed up! The 2 of us and another local we recruited carried this huge turtle back down to the sea, and it just swam off. During our surf later on I saw a turtle swimming around, so im hoping it was the one we saved.. (Pictures on my camera) Last night was strange but absolu...

After getting back to camp yesterday after the drive we all just dropped our stuff and went straight out for a surf. It was lumpy but pretty big and good fun, plus it was just great to be back in the water after a few days.. We had our lesson at 7am and waking up was a real chore! The weekend has started to catch up with everyone. I had a really good surf though - it was about 3-4ft and clean. To start with I just fell off every wave I caught but after half an ...

So Dan and I got up about 8am this morning to get showered etc, and start the hunt for the missing Lasse and Lenny! As we were signing out of our room at reception a rough looking Lenny appeared. It turned out he had managed to wangle a room at Nomads somehow too, quite how in the state he was in I will never know! That only left a missing Lasse.. We walked down to leave our stuff in the car, to see someone sprawled out in an impossible position in the car. Clo...

Last night was off the chaaain! We got the whole of Dan's tour group up on the balcony of his room to start pre-drinking...at 11pm. After polishing off a free crate of beer (some Aussies gave Dan?!) and some 'American Honey' whisky we went out to 'Woodys', which is a kind of surf shack style bar with a really laid back vibe and good music. The madness began when Lenny wasn't allowed in for being 'too drunk', when it was actually blatantly obvious they just didn'...

What another crazy day! Today we had the first lot of our assessment. Got up at 7am with a really bad back, and was freaking out that I wouldn't be able to do the ocean mission. We met the assessor at 8am and started what turned out to be a ridiculous amount of theory/paper work. 8am till 4pm was just paper work and the practical 'advanced resuscitation' stuff. It was really interesting doing CPR etc on the dummy but by about 2pm theory was really starting to d...