Friday, the 13. we had set for our first joint dive on La Palma. Good, that we are not superstitious. 🙂 Schon gegen zehn Uhr sollten wir in der Tauchschule auf der anderen Seite der Insel sein und machten uns pünktlich auf den Weg. Once there, we were made very welcome from the team. Dietmar knew the whole team already from his last stay in La Palma. My first dive after the three-month break, we wanted to make the so-called "house reef". Werner, our instructor, took really long time for me. The dive itself was relaxed and interesting. Only the way to the water (150 Meters with the complete equipment) and most of the way back called me with my bad condition. It is time, to finally work on my fitness! Where will it lead else? 🙂
So we agreed with the diving school, that we wanted the next day become active again. For me also the AOWD course was on the program, which would allow me, up to 30 To dip meter depth. Dietmar had already taken the course in Madeira and of course I did not want inferior. To deal with Dietmar enough during my course time, Veronika was looking for him also a challenging course out. My husband can be in the coming days to "Rescue Diver" form. That makes it fun and useful it is finally. Always good, when someone is nearby, the white just in case, what to do. So we moved each with a thick textbook from there, and the next time definitely not be bored.
In the evening we wanted to try our luck with the Canary Carnival again. It was not supposed to be every night Kinderkarneval. 🙂
No, today were the samba groups on the program.
Especially for Dietmar the pretty dancer gutters were a feast for the eyes, But I also liked the ladies all ages with their elaborate and colorful costumes. Nevertheless, we were glad, as the show was over around half past eight, for it was very cold.
To warm up, we decided, back down directly on the SUMMER, but still to go eat a pizza in town. The day before yesterday we 100% conditioned original Italian pizzeria was noticed, and we were eager to test out now. The small restaurant was up on a table fully occupied. Apparently we were lucky. But then we found a book on the table and a shopping bag, which stood on the floor next to the table. Someone was probably still have been faster? Or the items have been simply forgotten? We took first place and waited, what would happen. A short time later also appeared a young woman, which included things. But she had no objection to our society and we learned from your many interesting things about La Palma. For almost five years, she has been living on the island, works on the one in the restaurant business and as a teacher of German and Spanish. Therefore, they could tell us a lot about life in and with the palmeros. We spent a fun and informative evening in a magnificent stone-baked pizza. On the way home we found, that we had not even imagined. Well, maybe we run ourselves so again on the way. The island is not that big and you meet is known to play twice in the life.
On Saturday we met the other diver at the diving school in Los Cancajos and went together to the Dive Spot, lying directly below the airport. In the small fishing village held a narrow boat ramp hidden among the maze of houses in the water. Next to an old boat shed, we prepared our equipment before and came easily with the aid of a safety line to the sea. For today we have had no planned dive course so were also no exercises, which had to be overcome. We just explored only the unknown reef and observed many fish and other sea animals. For the next two days the weather conditions for more dives should be too bad. But the time we want to use, to take care of the theoretical course contents.