A quiet week

This week is possibly the first time I feel stumped for something interesting to write. It's been a busy week with only a few volunteer mishaps and one telling off, but other than that, it's been probably the most unremarkable week that I can remember.
I've been diving. I've eaten fish and beans. I've seen some lovely sunsets and I've hung out with volunteers. That is more or less it. We did have one volunteer go AWOL for a
couple of days. She'd decided that she wanted to go to a desert island for a couple of days and went with an ex-BV volunteer but did not tell any of us that she was going. She managed to send us a message the following day to say she'd be another day away. Even so, she got a good ticking off when she returned and has been 'punished' with a bunch of 6am boat marshals.
Living without phone coverage really is a bit of a bind at times. Yesterday, for example, Justin and I went to Laguna Blu for lunch. Some volunteers also went and we'd tried to send a message the previous day to let their kitchen know. However, the person didn't manage to take the message over and so we turned up unannounced. Happily, the kitchen was(just about) able to accommodate us.
Laguna Blu is really only a couple of kilometres away. Not far at all. And yet without a phone, it might as well be miles and miles away when there's no wind (or too much wind) or it's dark you want to get a message to them.
So, that's about it for this week. No bok bok making extravaganzas. No major wildlife sightings by myself (though some other volunteers did see a very enormous stingray). In fact, nothing very exciting to report at all. Just lots and lots of hard work (4am until 9.30pm last Thursday on the part of Justin) and mental arithmetic - working out the numbers for the meals with people coming and going. There are over 40 of us at dinner each night, but luckily the kitchen is keeping up, which is kind of a miracle in itself.
Next weekend, we have an STD play competition, a women's association party and Justin and I may go and do a couple of tourist dives with Laguna Blu. So, hopefully I'll have more to report next week.