Diving in the Poor Knights Islands
Diving today was soo cool! I’m so glad I did it. Went out to Tutukaka to take the boat to the Poor Knight Islands and it was beautiful. There are so many archways and caves on those islands it’s amazing. Our boat, which had about 30 people in it with room for more was able to easily go through a couple of the archways on our way to diving locations.
We even went into the largest sea cave in the world! (seems like everything in NZ is the BEST IN THE WORLD so they tell me) And the boat fit spacious inside of it. I was supposed to only do one dive, but the instructor said I could add another dive on for $50 bucks which I finally decided to do, so I got two dives.
The first dive, was not so great. It was cool seeing the reefweeds and the various subtropical fish, but I was having problems with my bouyancy, I kept floating up and down. The second dive, I got a handle on it. I adjusted my BCD (bouyancy control device) to equalize me and discovered that when I’d take a deep breath in, I’d rise, and when I’d breath out, I’d sink. The instructor said we’d go up and down like that as we breathed, but for me it was an extreme amount, I guess cause I breathe pretty deeply.
But on the second dive, I was able to regulate my breathing so that if I started to float up, I would just blow out all of my air and wait to sink, breathing in a little bit as I did so. Worked out really well and I got to see a lot more.
The second dive was at Blue Maomao Arch. We actually dove underneath the archway and there was a huge boulder which had fallen underneath it which we swam under, making a small but still extremely cool underwater cave. I saw Scorpion fish, some eels, even a jelly fish, which wasn’t poisonous so I could touch it. Beauty.
Man that was amazing. I also got a log book and wrote down my first two real open water dives. I’ve been thinking what to do with my life and I’ve formulated a little idea. I think I’ll work for JustiCorp a year, then go off and become a diving instructor for a year, then I’ll work for JustiCorp a year, then go teach English in Japan, then I’ll work for a year, and then spend a year becoming a skydiving master and teach that. That sounds like a plan that would just fit much better for me. Just hope I don’t die while doing it. 
Tomorrow, surfing, then back to Auckland