On Monday we decided to look for some activity and went to the Los Gigantes harbour.  Harbour is always nice lively place :)  Restaurants and cafes, fresh fish for lunch (sardines this time) and watching fish in the pool and big boats. Sun hot but water all around you makes it so cool.  Relaxed feeling.

Visited a diving center and we got a test dive for the afternoon.  Our last dive was in Red Sea in 2001 so we really needed freshing up.  There's so many life saving issues to remember that better to have it safe way.  We got nice older English lady for our instructor.  We went through the equipment, dressed up the wet suit and then to the boat with all the things on (heavy stuff).   First difficult test was to get out of the boat sitting and summersaulting backwards.  It really put my breathing to the heavy side and our instructor asked me to slow down before diving.  Second problem was to get down.  I had too light weights on and could not get under the surface but again the instructor helped me and diving could start.  We were just under the 500m high rocks, about to dive to 9m first.  As it started to go so well we went to 14m in some point.  The bottom was rocks and sand, visibility quite good but not too much to see, no corals.  But lots of fish, some interesting and really a lot of those piky stars which you want to avoid.  We stayed c. 40mins under water.  Breathing felt really heavy all the time but diving started to feel comfortable quite soon.

We had another go on Wednesday nearby.  Diving was much easier and remembered more things on the second round.  Should really go more often!  Memory making tricks on me and can't remember any of the fish names which we saw down there...

Afterwards we were exhausted.  It's like hard work, physical I mean, and after dinner we just dropped dead on bed.  Now I should find a way to get photos out of the camera memory.  Our photo computer is in the old house still and I don't know if any of our laptops have certain hole for the card or where to find a suitable cable to connect to the camera.  The nuisance of moving...

(For some reason I skipped Sunday so the reports are not in timeline...)