Small ear infection = 2+ days without diving

As I wrote the other day, I was a little bit sick. Probably a small tropical infection. This has now spread to my ears, and I have a tiny ear infection. This means no diving...
Being a 'professional' diver means staying out of water around 1 week every month, most often because of tiny ear infections or because of small bruises which never heal when soaked into salt water 3-4 hours every day. Usually these bruises come from motobikes (which I almost never use). And sometimes these bruises come from (like me) diving into caves which look big enough for me, but they are not ;). I have tried a few times to enter a cave opening or a swim-through where I had to have my paying customers to help me out again ;). On top of this comes the many tropical germs that seem to hit you once in a while; expect bad stomach and/or fever at least 2-3 days every month. As you can read, life in the tropics is very, very hard...... ;o)

So the photos from Today are from relaxing the last couple of days in the 35 degrees temperatures near the beach in the tropics. I know it is still very cold in Scandinavia at least, so feel free to envy me ;). The photos show a snake visiting out resort yesterday (poisonous of course), people sending up Lucky balloons, and there is a photo of my first EVER payment as a diver in Thailand: bringing one of my friends, Anja, from a non-diver to become a fully-blown Open Water Diver. Wow! And the last photo is of a typical method for relaxing in Thailand. Look at the dog. Look at the man sleeping on tiles. I cannot do that yet, and I hope I never get there ;o)