Dives were really amazing. We had five Adventure Dives for AOWD:

1. Boat Dive
2. Night Dive
3. Underwater Navigator
4. Peak Performance Buoyancy
5. Deep Dive

Peak Performance Buoyancy was a number one technical lesson – I’d highly recommend taking it especially if you don’t feel very self-confident underwater due to excessive BCD usage or hard work with your fins/hands.

Night dive was a number one underwater sightseeing. Muraenas are really impressive! Yet apart from them, we’ve seen hell a lot of other underwater creatures. And by creatures, I really mean that some of them caused a frustration because I could not tell whether they were a fish, a plant, a snake, a rock or yet another underwater alien. Here’s an index of those available at Bali.

For our last dive we bought a still underwater camera, so you can find our first underwater photos.

Meanwhile, you can check our photos in Marija’s public photo album.

When I first saw that, it made me wonder: how do they do it? All the cars are so nicely and closely parked to each other. Distance between every one of them is no more then 10 centimeters and sometimes – there’s no distance at all! Look:

Nice, huh?

But as days passed, I began to realize that the idea of Parisian drivers being really cool was just an illusion. Common, do you think there’s some kind of crane waiting for every car driver so it could drag out the car nicely? I guess the “Golf” driver would really use one:

Or these “Peugeot” drivers:

You think the distances only looks relatively small? Now how relative is that:

Ain’t that love..

If you’re still not convinced, spend some time on google maps. Don’t know where to start? How about here, where I took most of the pictures.

OK, I’ll make it clear: there’s nothing wrong in scratching other cars here! You will not be punished or scolded. Actually you will only get the attention from tourists and city guests like us, but not from local people.

Pity I didn’t have a chance to make a video stream of parking in action yet (although I had a chance to watch few really smooth moves) but as soon as I will succeed, I’ll definitely share it with you. For now, please enjoy what some others guys were lucky to capture:

This summer, my girlfriend, me and my brother decided to go diving. As Croatia was the country we always wanted to visit, we chose to receive our PADI Open Water Diver certificates there. The hardest part of all that was finding a place to stay and a diving center to dive with. After probably a week of searches, e-mail correspondence and phone chats, we finally agreed to stay with Pongo. Not only we agreed on diving courses but also on a very nice apartments in the middle of Rogoznica. I had no doubts our diving instructor Borko was exaggerating (it’s business) but for our great amazement, we got a two flour cosy house in the center of Rogoznica with three rooms, two bathrooms, terrase, balcony and all other facilities – all our!, for all week! and the price is included in the OWD course price! Unbelievable!!!

So far that was the best holiday ever! I cannot resist recommending these guys. So, back to the point. Here are top ten reasons to make your very first open water dives with Borko and Marko:

1. Rogoznica is a very lovely and very beautiful small island
2. Diving courses are really high quality with lots of additional lessons about threats, medical treatments etc. Usually you should be OK with general PADI DVD playback and diving exercises
3. There’s an infinite number of interesting underwater places around Rogoznica
4. Borko is a really nice guy
5. So is Marko
6. They have really nice houses for accommodation
7. The cost for diving courses with accommodation there is as small as say in Lithuania but without the accommodation
8. After each dive, you get beer for free
9. Very close to Rogoznica, there’s a Bau-Bar. It’s probably the most beautiful bar you will ever find

And, the tenth – a fragment from our conversation with two pensionary German divers who were making their 50th+ dives here (after diving all across the world):

And how on the earth have you managed to find these guys for your OWD courses? On the internet? Randomly?! You are really REALLY lucky! I wish we have studied for our diving certificates with such a brilliant guys..