Diving 2007

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Wednesday April 18, 2007: Diving at Kallithea Rhodes

Today we are awake on time. We get up at 08:00 and go for breakfast: same as yesterday. We wait a moment for Linda and Patrik and then at 10:15 André picks us up. He was our contact person at Waterhoppers. We drive a few kilometers along the coastline and there they have a small desk. There are two Polish persons, 1 American from Las Vegas and two Dutch guys; André and Tsjeert. We arrange all paper work and then we can leave for Kallithea. The thermae were just like we remembered. Only then there was a fence that prohibited the passing towards the bay. Now we bring all stuff down, get ready and then we can dive away. One of the Polish guys and the American do the Discover Scuba Diving and the other Polish guy and us go for the dive in the bay. That sounds nice. It’s the first time Timo takes the camera he bought from Janick to practice. Very good. Timo is relaxed and Eef is too, we go down and everything is OK. We first swim to the other side of the bay and everything is very pretty, a beautiful underwater world. We swim over the sand over the grass plains and enter the caves on the other side of the bay. We emerge and we do another check now. Eef and I are OK and we do it all ‘siga siga’. Plenty of small fish, beautiful rocks and all is OK. Just before we get to the surface Timo sees a sepia and points this out to Eef. GR8! So we get out of the water, put on dry clothes and drink a bit and have a sandwich with cheese and ham. And then it’s time for our second dive. We dive with the same team: André, Eef, Timo and the Polish guy. Now we go deeper than the first dive: 17,4 against 12 meters and that should not be done, but then again. We see the same fish as before, also 1 nice cave and come out of the water after a 40-minute dive. Eef sees a moray eel and the other don’t. A note for Timo is not to eat too much between the two dives. After that we drive back to the hotel and we can look back on two nice dives. We rinse our gear and take a shower we walk to the old town and check on some old buildings. We have a break on a terrace on the square with the fountain of the seahorses. And there we enjoy a Mythos. Eef then walks very fast to the hotel and back to get warm clothes and then we eat something at Everest Grill, the same restaurant as before. Now we have kokkino krasi, dolmakdakia, calamari, kip, tiri and gemista, very good. We sit here a while and are offered free tsipouro and ouzo and around 22:45 we return to the hotel. We drink some retsina, watch TV and go to sleep.