Philip, UK

03 July 2010

Once again, thank you all for making Mary & I most welcome, looking after me so well, & giving me my best ever holiday in Tenerife (Mary said I was so high). I have forgotten what it feels like to carry my own gear! Diving with you is so relaxed & so much fun, but no one could take safety more seriously, as I saw on my last dive to La Caletta Reef (thanks to Emma & my beautiful dive buddy Bea - lets dive together again in September -Please!.

I suppose the most memorable dives were the 1:1 with Ines (very honored!).El Condesito with Nitrox Teacher Andy, with my first visit into the hold the big Fireworm & so many Rays including Mother & baby sleeping & the one I nearly knelt on - giving me a fright & everyone else a good laugh. El Aquario with Emma & Ben ( I had dived with his parents when we were doing our AOW at Aquamarina together) - it started with a turtle swimming past me as we descended the anchor line looking down at the huge Rays circling the divers who were down first & moving in between them - it just kept that up. And finally La Caletta Reef with Emma & Bea in a "challenging" current with the "huge" Scorpion fish & the Roncadores, you find so many shoals of these that just swimming through them seems ordinary, so I stayed stationary in their way & they just swam around me.

It was great to cope with the conditions & to feel that with your training & encouragement my diving is starting to get better. Let me not forget Paul, for mixing my Nitrox, & showing me how he did it, & strong-man Ray, who seems to regard carrying 2 sets of gear normal! Sorry to those I forgot to mention.

Thank you once again. See you in September.

Philip & Mary.