The morning was a quiet one aboard the boat, while I played around on the computer with e-mails and other stuff including updating some pages on the website, both Agathe and Desi were intensely studying the PADI books and learning, cramming and revising for the afternoon’s classroom work at Octopus diving. Barely a word was spoken between 8:30 and 13:30, when we departed the boat. I left them at the shop with their instructor Sally, later replaced by Isa, and spent some money at the Bacchus wine store. By the time I’d stored the wines and other purchases aboard the boat and taken a quick shower it was already 16:00 and I returned to the store and read my Kindle outside while they completed their studies. At 17:30 we headed to Calmos Café for Happy Hour and were joined by some of the dive shop crew and subsequently walked the streets of Grand Case – unfortunately the Tuesday art fair wasn’t being held and traffic was heavy on the main drag. After a bit of window shopping we returned to the boat, but the dinghy was nowhere to be seen at the dock and we found it underneath the concrete; jammed securely in place. When we extricated it from the dock it turns out that it had been damaged, but it looks like it was just cosmetic. Once aboard, we had some steaks with garlic bread (beware of Zanshin ye vampires and other garlic-haters) and didn’t head down below until shortly before 2am. It was a long day.
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