Scuba diving at one of Thailand’s top diving sites: Sail Rock

As Lewis the Lion was by now an already accomplished scuba-diver (quiet an achievement for a little lion!), he waited patiently while his friend, Sinead also studied to become a qualified open-water diver at the Dive Inn. Due to her dedication, in no time at all she had gained her award, in spite of there being difficult conditions such as poor visibility on her final, qualifying beach dive. She was therefore eager to do a boat dive and Lewis the Lion and Helen were keen to join her, especially as they had heard that the dive at Sail Rock was one of the best diving sites in Thailand. Even though it took some determination to get there as there were many boats out that day, they were moored at quite a distance and they had to swim on their backs through a choppy sea to get to the rock. However, when they got there, their hard work paid off and they were not to be disappointed. Here are some of the highlights of Lewis the Lion’s two underwater dives:

* Seeing shoals of chevron barracuda
* Coming face to face with enormous grouper fish
* Investigating the strange faces of moray-eels
* Delighting in huge zig-zag oyster clams
* Seeing a huge, blub-blubbing jelly-fish which floated by slowly and eerily and then perhaps the best bit of all:
* Swimming through thousands upon thousands of big eyed snappers, whilst holding paws and hands with Helen and Sinead. These fish looked like thousands of waving, golden corn sheaths in a field and they parted the way as the friends swam through them: simply magical!

One of the best things for Lewis the Lion and Helen on this particular dive was that they were able to share it with Sinead. At many times on his travels around the world, for however much fun they might have been, Lewis the Lion had thought that it might have been great if such and such a person was there with them to share in the experience so it was simply wonderful that Sinead had experienced it with them too!

They were very grateful to their dive masters Wendy and Woody without whom they would not have been able to share in this most memorable experience.

If you could go anywhere in the world to share a special experience with a friend, where would it be and what would you like to do?

About Helen Molloy

Helen Molloy has been a Primary Learning and Teaching Consultant, leading on the introduction of Primary Languages in the City of Stoke-on-Trent for the past 5 and a half years. She is passionate about language learning and inspiring children into developing a curiosity and awareness of other people's languages and cultures.
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