Word: Free Flow (Post Phuket Thoughts)

I just wanted to note down how was the experience of traveling to Phuket all by myself to take up diving.

Well, to sum it up, simply amazing. Looking at the photos I'd taken, those ocean shots, makes me wanna go back again this instant. To be honest, it's not that fun being alone on a trip. There's no one to talk to and no one to laugh with. But instead, I somehow gained a state of peacefulness. Which is good in another way.

I enjoyed walking by myself independently along the streets and doing a mini exploration on my own. Over there, there's a lot of caucasians, as well as couples. It's really quite hard to make new friends if you can tell. Oh well, all is fine. As long as I'm happy with how it all ends.

Diving has been pretty scary when you first started doing it? It can give you a sense of the slight dreadfulness whenever I think about the dives? Mainly because I guess there's just so many steps to do before going in and many things to remember while you are in there. Unlike snorkeling where by you just jump in and that's it.

However, I think it's still pretty amazing underwater. And completing the Open Waters, I gained this  sense of achievement! That feeling I got when I finished the qualifying dive was pure happiness. On the dives before the qualifying one, I thought I won't get too ecstatic over it. But surprise surprise, super major stoked when we surfaced.

I mentioned on other platforms about the turtle I saw. So well on dive 4, we saw a turtle swimming above. Jon then signal for me to stay down. And slowly the turtle made it's way down! I managed to stay with it for a while and looking at it makes me so happy. They are such angels in the ocean world. The way it came up to the certain coral/reef looks like it's dominating it. And the colours on it reflected purple and green.

The other crazy moment was the last dive, dive 5. We saw a school of barracudas. It's like crazy. They are not frightening honestly speaking. Just simply, amazing?! Also, I swam through one of those cubes. Honestly, not sure why Jon thinks I can swim through that. But okay I managed it kinda well except I did scratch a little on the cubes. Perception underwater is not easy.

Looking out into the boundless ocean on the way back to land, lying on the second tier bench under the sun all wrapped up in a towel, danging my feet off the ship etc. It's a really wonderful feeling.

Feeling so blessed.


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