Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Reminiscing

After my first year of dental school I decided to go to Thailand to become a SCUBA instructor. I had previously finished my Dive Master course in Honduras a year or so before and had felt bad I never was able to meet instructor. I haven’t been diving (or traveling for so long). I was looking through some old pictures…

My first morning in Bankok from my hotel. Wondering a bit what I am doing in Thailand all by myself…

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In Phuket at my Dive School with a local baby. I thought she was so adorable. I wasn’t trying too hard to be adorable myself this trip…not in Bankok’s heat and humidity.

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Phuket night life. Notice I didn’t have many clothes with me.

 

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Teaching my “students” for the exam. The pink frog lady is my examiner.

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My classmates after we passed the course! I was the only American. Luckily I wasn’t the only one who spoke English.

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Finally some real diving after weeks of pool diving!

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Beautiful Thailand…

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And beautiful Thailand underwater…

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Seahorse

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Sharks

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Can you see him? I tried to get a better pic but he swam way too fast for me to catch up

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Starfish

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Lots of “Nemos”—clownfish. They are actually kind of aggressive for such little guys and hard to get a good picture

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Eel

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Scary combo, lionfish with poisonous barbs and urchins! Yikes.

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I miss diving! Anyone want to get certified?

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5 comments:

nathan n rachel said...

Cool photos Erin.

Tawnya said...

ok seriously Erin, you have the coolest life!!

Camber said...

Dangit, Erin, I have to keep ramping you up on my awesomeness scale. I would love for you to teach me scuba if I had 1) money and 2) somewhere nearby to dive besides Coralville lake (trout, anyone?). My dad and brothers used to do it a ton and it looks so fun. Thailand looks beautiful.

Marci Wittwer Butterfield said...

Let's plan a dive trip to somewhere cool and exotic... you can certify Adam and give me a refresher course!

Susan said...

You have lived and incredible life~! ...and it just keeps getting better.