Aaah, was finally able to get back in the water this week.

With the wife and daughter over in the UK visiting family, I decided to lessen the pain of missing them, with a couple of days diving in Tioman... and I must say it certainly helped. Only kidding darling, but it was good to be back in the bath water, that is the South China sea (average temperature - 29°C, nice!)

Was joined by a friend (dive instructor) and his wife (open water, but didn't dive). It was their 1st trip to the island by one of the available speed boats and, whilst the journey over was like crossing a skating rink, the trip back was the journey from hell.

Being a regular vistor, I've had some bad trips before (that's boat trips, not drug trips!) and this was right up there with the worst. The boat is pretty small and, unfortunately, the waves were very large. The usual 1hr crossing took more than 2. At least 6 people around us were 'feeding the fish' (vomiting) within 30 minutes of leaving and to make it worse, all the windows had to be shut, due to the water spray - this on a boat without any form of air-con. You get the picture.

Somehow I think the next trip, will be by the much larger and more stable ferry.