Well, not a good thing! The chest strap broke, and I mean the plastic part that has the sensors on it from the main part of sensor between the central transmitter and the side sensors. I guess I was getting to pumped up on the rowing machine.

Well, it will go back to the Mountain Equipment Coop.

Here is a further description of it, though no detail of the chest strap.

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This is the Number 30 highway going North towards the city. Note the mix of traffic. Speeds are from 150 to 80 km/hr or less. So it can be treacherous. And people cut across and pass in any lane. So you need to drive very defensively with the aggressivve part always at hand to pass ahead of potential trouble.

And then you have them here selling watermelons. I pulled over for the photo and believe me after taking the photo is was extremely treacherous to get back on the road!

Here I am, eating my once per week German Chocolate Fudge cake outside at Kabobji. Note the i-Mate PDA2K phone on the table also. Click on the image for a full size version.

The viewing has been:

Mahaboula

Not an option. Not enough bedrooms. Two units ground floor or upper floors.

Egala 1

New, not bad, but not the best layout of the living rooms. Also surrounded on 3 sides.

Egala 1 1/2

Similar to Egala 1

Egala 2

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KD 650
This is being lived in. The lady has done finishing.
Kitchen is ugly.
Possibility.

Fintas 1

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Nice
Empty 800
Furnished 900
Good quality finishing. Sensibly laid out.
Open space.
Very nice, very well finished. Furniture is very nice.

Adan Block 2

KD 800
Massive villa. Way too huge.
Large yard
Pool in basement.
Huge room in basement plus two bedrooms and room for exercise equipment.
Main floor 5 bedrooms.
Third floor, one bedroom one maid’s room.

Egala 3

I looked at it. Too near the freeway, not peaceful at all.
Available furnished for 700 KD, street is not finished yet.

In all cases, full maintenance is included.

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Well, I’ll keep the dives listed here.

Went diving on Friday. To Qaruh island, finally!

The conditions were quite good, we went out to explore the reef and after a few minutes I had a small leak in my pressure gauge. So I went up, though I should have found my buddy then went up, but on a scan of the water I didn’t see him. It was in fact because he was so close to me that I didn’t see him. A good buddy!

Then I want back to the boat and say it was a minor leak in the swivel to the pressure gauge so I went out again with the same gear for a conservative dive on the reef with another fellow. It was a fun dive, good visibility, I saw more variety of fish than I’ve seen yet. No sea turtles, though they do show up sometimes. Got a nice view of a lion fish. You don’t touch them the spines will give you a nasty sting. What is very beautiful or ugly generally stings or bites so do not touch.

Then a second dive. Saw sea cucumber which looks like a big blob of poop on the bottom and more varieties of fish and several types of coral. Fun.

Then I changed regulators, to be safe and it was time for the deep dive.

Then the biggie. Dive three was the deep dive at the wreck. The wreck is about 2 km from the island in deep water. It is a Coast Guard boat that Iraq took in the Gulf War and then the Americans shot down and sank. The top of the mast is at about 24 meters and the bottom is at about 32 meters depending on tides. Lots of interesting things around the boat, lion fish again. You certainly need to be careful around the boat, lots of things sticking out as you go down the cable that is fixed on the top. The top of the boat is the top of the mast where all the antennas etc. are sticking out. So a short tour around the boat and then time to surface. We stopped on the bottom to look at a couple of plastic bottles. One was sealed at the surface and was completely crushed on the bottom. The other had some water in it, and you could see on the bottom how the entrapped air in it was compressed. Also we had a snack. I took a bit, 26 meters down. It looked like an apricot but was a tomato a bit shriveled up. Of course red is the color first lost as you descent. Took a bite and didn’t need salt! You can eat underwater, though it would need some practice, as I still had some in my mouth after surfacing!

After a tour around the conning tower we surfaced along the guide wire took our safety stop at 5 meters then surfaced at the boat, and I got a piece of jellyfish on my wrist. Immediate blisters and mild pain. Vinegar took the blisters away and that was that. Tonight, 24 hours later, there is a vague feeling of it, but nothing to bother me.

Water temperature was around 24 degrees so I was happy with the wetsuit, 3 mm thick, more than adequate for these conditions.

I now notice that in my logbook, I didn’t log three dives only two. Not to worry.

Did you know that Kuwait is considered to be one of the fifteen lands that comprise the “Cradle of Humanity“.

It officially started today. I now have have an agent and went and looked at one today. It is 5 minutes from the beach. There is a large building between the house and the ocean. It is located in a good are with walking to a number of restaurants. It consists of two units in one building:

1. The Ground Floor
   It has two massive sitting rooms, as they call them here plus a very large hallway. The kitchen is large with stone countertops. It needs a stove, fridge and modification if a dishwasher is added. You can put a small table in the area at the side of the kitchen, but not full size. There is a wrap around porch which doesn’t serve much. There are two bedrooms. Both fairly large. One potential is that one of the sitting rooms could be converted into a bedroom.
2. Second and third floor
   The second floor has one sitting room and two bedrooms. The kitchen is small with not much room for storage or eating area. There is the third story with laundry room of adequate size and a maids room.

I’m heading diving on Friday. Thursday is preferred but this is the day it is planned by the dive center.

It will be my first deep dive down to 30 meters. Stay tuned for new. We plan to go to Garo Island and do two fun dives then the deep one.