Went diving today...spent all last night waking up checking the time....my alarm hasn't exactly behaved as its supposed to since the new sim...actually cooperated this morning, so perhaps it's figured itself out...too bad I'm about to change countries, tee hee. We were up at 8 for breakfast and at the dive boat by 9:15ish. After our last dive (blue lipped shiver fest) I got 5.5mil, a shorty and a hood. (the dive masters were all wearing the same, and booties- don't judge!) first dive was a sunken cargo ship, 18meters deep at the lowest point. It's believed it was the Turkish equivalent of a "coyote boat" no name, or any identifying numbers were anywhere on the wreck. Everyone who was on the boat was thankfully found alive. The runners (much like on the Mexico/America border)get paid a lot of money to get people past immigration into Greece. If they're about to be caught, to avoid prosecution, they'll sink the boat and the coast guard is required to come get everyone and bring them to Greece...which is what happened to the cargo ship we saw today. It's split in 3 sections, and you can see where it plowed into the ocean floor. The second dive was amphora (pottery used to transport water and food on boats BC era) as the (wood) boat itself has (dur of course) rotted...and for some unbeknown reason, seeing antiquities above ground is perfectly allowed, encouraged, filmed, and often not even an entry fee...apparently, underwater, as soon as the Greek government knows about it...it's sanctioned off, and no one's allowed near...yeah, I don't get it either. Lots of really big pieces, also saw an octopus, sadly he (she?) wasn't in the mood to come play. Was a great dive day, water was warmer than Crete, I only had 8kilos of weight, it rained on Kos, but not on us (and had stopped by the time we returned- awesome) walked along the beach, grabbed some food, and continued into old town. Saw the tree where it is believed Hippocrates used to teach. (how friggin cool is that?!?) tree is HUGE, and it looks like a few of it's umm "grandkids" have also taken root. There's a kind of "jungle gym" built up around the tree to support it, apparently pruning a +/- 2,500 year old tree that represents so much is no bueno. No clue what a "plane" tree is, but that's what the Hippocrates tree is called, (miss green thumb aka mom didn't know either, neener) need me some shipping travel mojo sent my way from everyone please, fingers crossed, hail Mary, throw salt over your shoulder...whatever your good luck dance is, if ya could do your jig tonight, we could really use it! Send thoughts of seeing our wine: boxed, shipped and merrily on its way to San Francisco by midmorning (Greek time!) Tuesday May 31, please and thank you. Got myself a bottle of retsina tonight...not gonna lie, a bit frightened by the idea of pine flavored wine...but when in Greece and such. It's currently chilling, I'm thinking cold pine needles will go down better than room temp...and likely even better after cocktail #...I'll have mom take a picture of my face as I drink it so you may giggle ay my ventures into the world of Andrew Zimmerman...okay let's face it, booze, yeah, this is way more like Bourdain. ;)
(Irish toast, with the Greek "cheers" [to your health] added to the end)
May the light always find you on a dreary day.
When you need to be home, may you find your way.
May you always have courage to take a chance
And never find frogs in your underpants.
Yasas
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