4th September
Today we went scuba diving!! We got up and after getting out kit sorted pootled off to the dive centre to meet up with the Nemo Divers team. After a lovely cup of coffee on the sea front we kitted up and got onboard the boat which took us out past the tip of Piran and to the Fiesa reef. The reef went down to 11m so it was a nice shallow and relaxing dive. It was also another good test for us and our new kit which performed very well again. I had great fun playing with my camera and took way too many photos, but I was pleased with a handful of them! Unfortunately the built-in flash didn't penetrate the water very well so colours were a bit lacking. I'll be looking into a possible upgrade at some point! Afterward we basked in the glorious sunshine with the Nemo crew and had great fun trying to work through the photos to identify what we had seen with our guide Robert. There was a lot of life including Golden Sponge, Purple Sea Urchins (the female ones cover themselves with "jewels"), Painted Combers, Loads of Blennys and Gobys, Baby Damselfish which were an electric blue, and their adult counterparts which had lost the vibrancy and were a more sedate dark grey, and European Wrasse. I also managed to capture on camera a HappyRachelFish, normally a camera-shy creature! I was pretty happy too.
For the rest of the day we soaked up the sun on the seafront and didn't do a lot else!
5th September
Again we spent the day by the beach today, neither of us really water to leave Slovenia just yet as it has been so good to us, so not a huge deal to report. Took this picture of a lizard though!
Will try and do something a bit more interesting tomorrow...
Click here for our photostream (flickr)
Click here for our route so far (google maps)
Today we went scuba diving!! We got up and after getting out kit sorted pootled off to the dive centre to meet up with the Nemo Divers team. After a lovely cup of coffee on the sea front we kitted up and got onboard the boat which took us out past the tip of Piran and to the Fiesa reef. The reef went down to 11m so it was a nice shallow and relaxing dive. It was also another good test for us and our new kit which performed very well again. I had great fun playing with my camera and took way too many photos, but I was pleased with a handful of them! Unfortunately the built-in flash didn't penetrate the water very well so colours were a bit lacking. I'll be looking into a possible upgrade at some point! Afterward we basked in the glorious sunshine with the Nemo crew and had great fun trying to work through the photos to identify what we had seen with our guide Robert. There was a lot of life including Golden Sponge, Purple Sea Urchins (the female ones cover themselves with "jewels"), Painted Combers, Loads of Blennys and Gobys, Baby Damselfish which were an electric blue, and their adult counterparts which had lost the vibrancy and were a more sedate dark grey, and European Wrasse. I also managed to capture on camera a HappyRachelFish, normally a camera-shy creature! I was pretty happy too.
For the rest of the day we soaked up the sun on the seafront and didn't do a lot else!
5th September
Again we spent the day by the beach today, neither of us really water to leave Slovenia just yet as it has been so good to us, so not a huge deal to report. Took this picture of a lizard though!
Will try and do something a bit more interesting tomorrow...
Click here for our photostream (flickr)
Click here for our route so far (google maps)
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