Subject: Post: <p>No, we did not survive until the fireworks show, everyone fell asleep. Timo was the only one to set an alarm and go out to watch the show, for his obvious professional reasons.</p><p>In the morning girls departed to their prebooked trip to the Islands to see sea lions and we boys waited for our diving gear to arrive. The dive shop was supposed to bring the gear at eight to try them on, and we were scheduled to depart to the diving beach at eleven. Well, you can guess how much scheduling works in these countries. The guys probably just had hangover, the gear never arrived and we finally departed to the beach maybe at noon.</p><p>They also had one "fat" size wetsuit, so me and Timo had to do our dives separately. The diving industry in Peru is not exactly big, they have five (5) bottle refilling compressors in the entire country. In Finland some three compressors are taken just to a weekend diving club trip..</p><p>The dive was ok, although just a shallow dive to seven meters for about an hour. For the first half an hour we had a first timer with us, so the divemaster had to spend all the time to hold his hand (or him, with two hands). After he ran out of air and we escorted him back to the beach we had pretty enjoyable dive with the divemaster, seeing crabs and small fish. I have never seen so many sea urchins in the same place by the way, and I hate them more than mosquitos. Kim managed to step on one getting spikes in his leg, but they are obviously not so poisonous here, and I also touched one briefly but it did not penetrate the strong skin on my thumb. Due to some cold stream waters in here are cold, temperature was around 15C in the bottom and got chilly pretty quickly.</p><p>After the dive we returned to the city and went out to check out Pisco airport, in hopes of finding a local aeroclub or flight school to borrow an aircraft tomorrow. Did not find much anything though. Pisco was destroyed by an earthquake a couple of years ago, and the airport was still being rebuilt. There was an airport with a lot of small aircraft halfway to Lima though, so I think we will try there tomorrow.</p><p>Now just chilling down in another hostel in Paracas, having a few drinks and excellent street hamburgers earlier. It is our last night in here, after all. Tomorrow morning we boys will go to see the sea lions too and then we start driving towards Lima, hopefully finding an aircraft to borrow or a surf school on the way. This coast is the best place in the world for surfing.</p> Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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