A wish ticked in my bucket list

Actually my bucket list seems to be never ending, it just keeps growing every time I hear or see a new exciting thing and *ting* my Bucket list is update. But let me tell you, I just went crazy when there was a green tick on one of my wish in the bucket list recently. So I am sure you can understand what is it to actually  be able to tick a task done on my crazy bucket list!

So here you go with my experience…

My recent trip which I call it an annual trip(Which actually means the trip which rips off my annual savings! ) :D made my dreams come true! Since these annual trips is once a year and with so much saving gone into it I love to squeeze in lot of must do things of the place in one single trip so this time beyond the Google must do things, the main agenda for me was to have at least one tick in my Bucket list. And so I picked SCUBA Diving!

Oh yes SCUBA diving was the initial thing on my list. It was there for a long time, with no action taken and had started staling. So this trip I was sure I had to do it and so after a friendly advice from an experienced friend, I picked my destination for my annual trip and that was THAILAND, for the amazing country it is with lot of variety which caters to almost all sorts of tourists of different age group and interest, it also is one of the best locations for Scuba diving as this country’s islands has the diving sites with best visibility.

BTW tell me how many of you remembered Kathrina Kaif and Hrithik Roshan diving in water and swimming in style in the deep blue sea as soon as I told Scuba diving??? I am sure almost all the souls who were jealous of Hrithik and souls like me who were jealous of Katrina in the movie ZNMD would have!  Hmmm I had this dream to be diving someday even before this movie portrayed the stylish scuba diving and the silly story of scuba diving being equivalent to meditation trust me the meditation gyan in the movie is total crap at least not true for the first timers ;)!

After reading too many posts and chatting with buddies who have already done it, I was all set to make the final booking with the tripadvisor’s top rated Diving club Super Divers in Phuket.  Thanks for their patience for I floated 100 mails seeking details about initial arrangements and clarification. The first thing I did as soon as I landed in Phuket was to mail Super divers to confirm my booking and from the day I landed in Phuket though we were doing 1000 other crazy things my whole interest was with upcoming scuba day…

And the D day had finally arrived, I felt extremely fresh even though I had slept sparsely due to over excitement and the thought of diving next morning. So there I was all set with a small backpack which contained some sun tan lotion, swim suite and with which a heavy mind filled with excitement :)

As soon as we reached the location the diving team took us to another Boat which would ferry us to the actual diving site to an island called Racha Yai in Phuket which took an hour's journey in the boat.  Entire boat was awesomely organized and everybody would get into small induction speech about the boat design and also an half an hour video of diving instructions. As I am writing this post I still relive those moments of Jan-12-2013..  I actually don’t want to tell you every minute details of Scuba diving because I don’t want to steal the show from those who want to experience it for themselves. J It  will be like revealing the suspense of the thriller movie, I don’t want you to curse me.

So friends here are the glimpse of the day and all I can tell you is people who love to live those wonderful moments of handling pressure, being in the deep sea enjoying the mesmerizing visuals of deep blue sea, Please add scuba diving into your bucket list.

My First view of life Jackets and oxygen Cylinder

Beautiful and very skilled Instructor Nim

My first dive

At a depth of 12-15 meter

I just love every minute of this trip

And so my first tick on my bucket list was done successfully