22.11.15 - Bueu

When a racing driver becomes a scubadiver!

19.7.15 - Cíes Islands

I have written and re-written this chronic over and over.
I've used proverbs and thought it was against all rules of good taste and common sense.
I've done the pin and wrote one thousand lines without leaving any I liked particularly.
July and there was no sun; with the raindrops threatening to fall.
The visibility was not the best: I dare I say it was the worst dive of my life; but the sample is so so small that only serves to joke. Nevertheless I saw bright algae, sea stars and cucumbers, cuttlefish, sea bream, two mullets, parrotfish; a small octopus dropped his ink when I tried to play with it.
Like the dip at Relaxe, I had no problems on ears compensation, which left me very satisfied.
And then, in the end, there is everything what diving worth, even when conditions aren`t the best: friendship.
Thanks Roças, Sandra, Sara, Paulo, Carlos, Simão, Pedro, Ricardo, Angelica, Teles.
At the end of August we returned to dive together; you`ll have stories from the Red Sea and I`ll have from the Great Barrier Reef. Stories that make the history of the CCD.

4.7.15 - Berlenga

Leaving Peniche in a small boat specifically prepared for diving, leave the fort on our right side entered the open sea, in the Atlantic, heading to one of the most beautiful places in Portugal: Berlenga Island.
The wave was round, with meter and a half high and the boat bounced across it; giving some fun to the trip.
We reached Berlenga, and went directly  to Primavera - a ship sunk in 1902, laden with Italian marble.
The water was at 17 ° C, with excellent visibility and for 44 minutes I saw the life that is in the depths: Maria da Toca, Marinas, Nudis, Grouper, Brill, Gurnard, Salemas, Cuttlefish. All in peace, apparently, all living freely in the wild. 20.1 meters deep, with the sand and remaining underneath the hull of the ship, one Conger.
After all this activity it was time to come to the surface, tell the adventures, swap the bottles and return to diving.
This time we went to the spot Relaxe: a wall near St. John Baptist fort.

Here, in addition to all the fauna and flora, given the low depth - 9.5 meters - the sunlight coming through the water and created a beautiful image of waves hit the rock.
In the end, under a beautiful sun and with the blue sea as a backdrop, observed by seagulls and cormorants, eat a picnic sick, accompanied by beer and many stories that make the family's CCD Puerto quite united. Thank you for welcoming me among you.

By these days...

.. the bike has been standing in the garage and the work has growing at Loba; before moving on to a new adventure, I have to leave everything organized.
However, also in these days, I've been entertained by the orders of chief Roças and CCD Porto staff, at Senhora da Hora pool, preparing myself to dive.
Mask on the face, I have been feeling like those fish that inhabit the walls of aquariums.
I want to go to sea, to dive and see life, to observe octopus and small fish before going to the warm seas where reigns the "big fish". I'm

still not ready but the day will come.