Chillaxing

This weekend our team took a trip to Sipalay on the south part of the island. It was about a 4 hour drive and along the way we passed through many small farming villages including sugar cane, rice, and fisheries. It was hard to see some of the lean-to shelters that the farmers lived in made out of nothing more than pieces of scrap wood and metal and thatched roofs - especially when we arrived at our 'luxury' dive resort called Artistic Diving. The level of poverty here is immense.

I am the only certified diver on the team and got in a couple of cool dives including a big reef full of lots of corals and several different species of fish. Some others tried the intro dive and the rest did some snorkeling. It was a nice way to get out of the city for the weekend and enjoy some fun in the sun.