AOW: Advanced Open Water finished

I have been a bit slack on posting news, but I completed my Advanced Open Water course two weeks ago. It was done at Nelsons Bay. We leftFriday night for a 3 hour drive north of Sydney. Saturday diving training started,consisting of 3 shore dives. A navigation of dive of a 30 metre square in murky water (visibility 2 metres) with a compass. I did well only out by 2 metres at the end of the square. Later in the day 2 dives of peak buoyancy and then a naturalist dive, identifiying various sea creatures. Water was much clearer, 10-12 metres but nothing like Fiji where it was 20-30 meteres. Was fun though. Sunday was the day of boat dives. The one I was really looking forward to. The trip out to the dive site site was exciting, A 2 metre swell and wind chop, once we got out the messy conditions, it was the deep water dive. 30 metres down (100 ft.) Odd being that deep but seems the same as a shallow dive but darker, and colours change and you use more air. Then we had a 1 hour break and did a wreck dive. S.S. Oakland. 27 metres down So many fish, a school of yellow tail that numbered in the 1000's everywhere you looked you were surrounded by them, wobegong sharks, scorpion fish, etc. Only a small class 1 instructor from Germany, me, a guy from England and another from Texas. See group photo. Seb-German instructor, Tim the Pom, Me, Ripp the Texan.