My next project is now finalized – signed, sealed and soon to be delivered. I spent over 3 hours surfing various websites this morning in search of a flight. I initially tried to use my collected airline points with United Airlines, but the connections were all miserable and sometimes involved 4 plane changes… and it would have needed more points for the one-way flight than my first-class fare had used getting here! Then I looked for one-way flights, but they were invariably more expensive than return fares. I couldn’t find a single real deal with any of the airlines and leaving from EIS, STT, SXM, ANU airports and I finally figuratively shook my hands in the air and selected a flight with just one change and no overnight stays anywhere.
Once that work was done I put together my dive gear and went for a dive at Turtle Reef. Octopus Diving had put some nice moorings up and I had a good dive with the fish eye lens and no flash. Turtle Reef is a shallow dive and I had a lot of bottom-time without using too much air but despite seeing lots of flora and fauna I didn’t see a single turtle.
I headed ashore to Calmos Café for some tapas and to listen to the Salsa band that plays every Thursday. I arrived too early and the place was still quite empty, but at 20:30 when the band started the place filled up quickly to the sound of well-played Salsa!
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